Show ABOUT FLOWERS the coloring principle of the madd madder er affects even the bones of animals that devour the plant the ivy leaved lettuce opens its leaves find and flowers at eight in ili the morning and generally closes again by four A great many flowers floi ers close it at night the marigold s hal wat u at suc idoN n and legains clowd closed unta mornine all plants are arc provided with flon finners fio ners erg though sometimes these are arc so amali small and so hidden at as to escape notice the pollen of flowers is in grains so small thai many kind sare no more than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter the car thamine flower has for thousands of years been used to dye fabrics ot of a yellow color the mummy cloths claths found in egyptian collins coffins are dyed yellow vi with ith this floi flo or er |