Unity in variety, as deduced from the vegetable kingdom : being an attempt at developing that oneness which is discoverable in the habits, mode of growth, and principle of construction of all plants / by Christopher Dresser.

  • Dresser, Christopher.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Unity in variety, as deduced from the vegetable kingdom : being an attempt at developing that oneness which is discoverable in the habits, mode of growth, and principle of construction of all plants / by Christopher Dresser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    276. Thus, where we have six stamens in a flower, we usually have three petals, three sepals, and three carpels, in which case tlie six stamens result from two rows of three {Fig. 295). Pig. 297. Fig. 299 In the Dielytra we have six stamens, and have two sepals, four (twice two) petals, and two carpels; here the number which pervades the flower is two {Fig. 298). Fig. 800. 277. Also, if we have eight stamens, we usually have four Fig. 297.—Flowering Rush (Bulomut umbeUatw). Fig. 298.—Diagram of the Dielytra Spcctabalu. Fig. 299.—Diagram of the Strawberry (Frag aria). Fig. 300.—Pink (Dianthus).