Red Velvet Sage (Salvia confertiflora). This exotic-looking Salvia develops floral spikes up to 18 inches long, crowded with tiny orange-red blossoms, from mid-summer to late autumn.

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 13, No. 7 (Jul., 1926), pp. 397-405 (10 pages) The vascular supply to the various floral organs, including the bract, is from the floral axis, that of the bract being ...

The development of the embryo sac continues and proceeds up to about the receptive stage of the stigma. 2. The ovules are cauline, arising from the central axis of the flower. The floral axis bulges ...

THE course of the vascular bundles in the perianth and floral axis has been studied by the author in a large number of species of the Primulaceæ. His results are described in this work, and are ...