Botany for young people. How plants behave: how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, &c (1872)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 32
26 HOW PLANTS EMPLOY INSECTS TO WORK FOR THEM, hanging shelf, which is stigma, and so sticky that any pollen it may chance to have brought would be left adhering there. As the head slips by, it must next … 53. It is not unlikely Fig. 13. Flower of Arethusa, entire. Fig. 14. A section that the pellets of pol- lengthwise. len, as they fall out of the uplifted anther of Arethusa, may some- times miss the insect’s head, or fail to adhere to it, and so be lost. But this plan, or something like it, serves…
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