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beautiful, showy flowers have rich contrasts in their color
scheme. The ten to twenty-ray flowers wave rich, orange banners
around the cone of
purple-brown disk-flowers.
The banners are
notched and bent downward
at their tips; each
banner-flower has a pistil,
and develops a seed.
The disk-flowers are
arranged in a conical,
button-like center; the
corollas are pink-purple
at the base of the tube,
but their five recurved,
pointed lobes are purple-brown. The anther-tube
is purple-brown
and the stigmas show
the same color; but
the pollen is brilliant
orange, and adds much
to the beauty of the
rich, dark florets when
it is pushed from the
anther-tubes. There is
no pappus developed,
and the seeds are carried
as are the seeds of
the white daisy, by being
harvested with the
seeds of grain.
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The stem is strong
and erect; the bracts
of the involucre, or
"shingles," are long,
narrow and hairy, the lower ones being longer and wider than those
above; they all spread out flat, or recurve below the open flower-head.
In blossoming, first the ray-flowers spread wide
their banners; then the flowerets around the base
of the cone open and push out their yellow pollen
through the brown tubes; then day by day the
blossoming circle climbs toward the apex—a beautiful
way of blossoming upward.
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Leading thought—This flower should be studied
by the outline given in Lesson CXXXV.