. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FIG. AND CATCH-FLY. LXI., 2), wliich opens its pinkish or white flowers m the twilight. Then breathing forth a sweet odour, it invites moths to caU u^n its pale which gleam Uiroiign the dusk. As a proleclion against smaller, uscV-ss visitors, the stem and are beset with sticKy hairs which catch anta and other thieves before thev reach the store of honey. Though Bouncing Bet, piai>onaria ofHcinalis (Fig. , 11, di«plarj her wlpfe or pale nink llowers durin
. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FIG. AND CATCH-FLY. LXI., 2), wliich opens its pinkish or white flowers m the twilight. Then breathing forth a sweet odour, it invites moths to caU u^n its pale which gleam Uiroiign the dusk. As a proleclion against smaller, uscV-ss visitors, the stem and are beset with sticKy hairs which catch anta and other thieves before thev reach the store of honey. Though Bouncing Bet, piai>onaria ofHcinalis (Fig. , 11, di«plarj her wlpfe or pale nink llowers during the day, they are much more attractive at night, when their pale colour and strong perfume signal to the sphinx moth. As in most catchflits, self-poliination is prevent- ed by the staniens maturing before the pis- til. First, the five outer stamens protrude and shed their pollen, the five inner sta- mens dehisce next, and flniUly the styles push forward and open out their stigmatic surfaces to cat<'h the pollen brought by moths from younger flowers. Another nocturnal beauty is the common evrning primrose, Oenothera biennis (Fig. lAII). Fa<lcd and dull during the daynt the ar)proach ot evening it slowly uafoli'la a fresh bud and emits a sweet perfume. In one form or another, this plant extends from. J FIG. PRIMROSE. ) the east to the west coasts of Canada. In j structure,^ the flower the familiar ! !!i'''"*'i}-„/'''ie very long, slender calyx tube (I'lg. LXII., 5) is attached at its base to the four-ceiled ovary, and encircles the thread- like style. At tlie top, the tube expands into four reflexed lobes (Fig. LXII., 1). and to It are attached four large, spreading I yellow pctak (Fig. 21 and eight ' I mens witli long anthers (Fig. LXII., a). ) Ihe style 13 crow-ned by four lin- ear stigmaa. The plant itself is I erect and branching, growing from I two to five feet high, and furnished with. Please note that these images are ext
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