. Elements of botany. Botany; Botany. CHAPTEE XVII. True Nature of Floral Organs; Details of their Structure. 187. The Flower a Shortened and Greatly Modified Branch. —In Chapter IX, the leaf- bud was explained as being an undeveloped branch, "which in its growth would develop into a real branch (or a prolongation of the main stem). Now since flower-buds appear regu- larly either in the axils of leaves or as terminal buds, there is reason to regard them as of similar nature to leaf-buds. This would imply that the receptacle corresponds to the axis of the bud shown in Fig. 60, and that the
. Elements of botany. Botany; Botany. CHAPTEE XVII. True Nature of Floral Organs; Details of their Structure. 187. The Flower a Shortened and Greatly Modified Branch. —In Chapter IX, the leaf- bud was explained as being an undeveloped branch, "which in its growth would develop into a real branch (or a prolongation of the main stem). Now since flower-buds appear regu- larly either in the axils of leaves or as terminal buds, there is reason to regard them as of similar nature to leaf-buds. This would imply that the receptacle corresponds to the axis of the bud shown in Fig. 60, and that the parts of the flower correspond to leaves. There is plenty of evidence that this is really true. Sepals frequently look very much like leaves, and in many cactuses the bracts about the flower are so sepal-like that it is im- possible to tell where the The same thing is true of. E F G FiQ. 136. — Transitions from Petals to Sta- mens in White Water-Lily. E, P, G, H, various steps between petal and stamen. bracts end and the sepals Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917. Boston, Ginn
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