...Hancock, "are so arranged as to divide theground color into patches of white, which blend with orsimulate perfectly the petals of the clustered flowers... 
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...The petals are uniformly coloured or tipped or striped, and present an almost infinite diversity of tints...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...I see them at the base of the blossom or inside the cavityof the "keel" of the flower, but the majority explore the petals andtake possession of them...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Small white ones sported like fragileflower petals in the bright rays...
Lucy Foster Madison 「Bee and Butterfly」
...The petals are represented by arow of dots and no leaves are shown...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...), and I think you will feel that its domed form, andthe flat lying of the petals one over the other, in the vaulted roof ofit, can be seen better thus than if they had been painted scarlet...
John Ruskin 「Lectures on Art」
...The petals refolded, and silently as a dream the globe shotupward and disappeared...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930」
...The four great sheaves of light give it a squareappearance, and are made up of rays or plumes, delicate like the petals of aflower...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...Sensitiveflowers, the scarlet pimpernel, the Africanmimosa, close their delicate petals, and asense of hushed expectancy deepens with thedarkness...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...PROSTRATA, and petals narrower...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
...—The same remarkable proportion of the petals may beseen in an unpublished species gathered by Fraser on the Brisbane river...
Thomas Mitchell 「Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia」
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