Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection (1905)
Macmillan and co. · leaf 351
520 DARWINISM OMAP. Chile, where humming-birds are especially plentiful, we find great numbers of red tubular flowers, often of large size and apparently adapted to these little creatures. Such are the beautiful Lapageria and Philesia, the grand Pitcairneas, and the genera Fuchsia, Mitraria,… … Pia, 1.—Hamming-bind fertilising Maregravia nepentholtcs, to bird fertilisation are the species of Marcgravia, in which the pedicels and bracts of the terminal portion of a pendent bunch of flowers have heen modified into pitchers which secrete nectar and attract insects, while birds feeding on the…
Darwin’s theory · Variability of species · Natural selection · Colour perception · Mimicry · Evolution
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