Flowers and their friends

I hope you will never do it. If you do not know what a word means, find out. There is a list of words you may not know at the back of this book to help you. They are all words u...

Their anther cells reach halfway up to the stigma, for the white stigma stands above the anthers. The anthers and the stigma are there for the sake of the ovules.

Its corolla, as you know, is large and showy, but it is not in the form of a tube. It is divided, into several distinct pieces called petals. Its calyx, too, is not green, but i...

In this way the geranium seeds are sometimes carried long distances. But this is not the end of the story. At last the seed with its coverings and feather rests on the ground. T...

It is sometimes called “Proteus” for the same reason. Of course you know all about Proteus, the sea god who lived at the bottom of the ocean and paid homage to the great god Nep...

Chlorophyll grains lie just behind the skin cells in all parts of the plant that look green. The cells they lie in are often long with their short ends towards the skin. Leaves...

If you want to know just where the stomata are situated in a leaf, plunge it in water, then shake the drops off and notice what part of the leaf has not been wet. Wherever the l...

These bulbs and thick roots are full of plant food; and this is where the plant has gone to. It has curled up, so to speak, in these bulbs and roots and gone to sleep till next...

For sepals, too, came from stamens. The plants made all these new forms out of the materials of their leaf buds and wrapped them all together into a flower bud; so when this ope...

Soon there were no more white flowers to be seen; they had stopped growing, and only the pink ones kept on, so we shall have to call these pink flowers Quintus.

=Nasturtium=, _n._ L. _nasus_, nose, _tortus_, convulsed; the name of a plant, so called because of its acrid juice that causes a stinging sensation at the back of the nose when...