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 34
nclude that one of the Sphynxes or Night-moths, such as flock around the blos- soms of the largest Evening-Primroses at dusk, is the proper helpmate of the Greater Green Orchis. The Smaller Green Orchis is much like the Larger, but with honey-tube hardly an inch long. This may be drained by many of… … 16) is occupied by the one large anther, and Fig. 31. Front view of the same, with the pollen- masses in the position they soon take. Both by the concave stigma. The anther is of figures magnified to the same degree as is the Orchis flower in Fig. 16. two cells, which taper towards the front of the…
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