. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 390 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. see something liaving a more or less orange tint. This orange color pro- ceeds from the broad and membra- nous prolon.^ations of the connectives. I may remind some of you that the connective is wliat might be called the mid-rib of the antlier. It usually terminates at the tip of the anther, but it is sometimes produced beyond it, as it is in this case, and very strikingly so in Paris quadrifoKa. An anther witli prolonged connective is analogous to a leaf whose mid-rib is produced beyond the blade. The stamens of the pansy
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 390 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. see something liaving a more or less orange tint. This orange color pro- ceeds from the broad and membra- nous prolon.^ations of the connectives. I may remind some of you that the connective is wliat might be called the mid-rib of the antlier. It usually terminates at the tip of the anther, but it is sometimes produced beyond it, as it is in this case, and very strikingly so in Paris quadrifoKa. An anther witli prolonged connective is analogous to a leaf whose mid-rib is produced beyond the blade. The stamens of the pansy have very short filaments—much shorter than their antliers. The ovary is conical in form, and the anthers are arranged com- pletely round it, their dehiscing sides inwards, facing the pistil. The pro- longations of the connectives thus take up a position near the upper part of the ovary, their tips meeting at the apex of the cone, but in such a way as to inclose a hollow space, with the ovary in the centre. Each of the two lower or front stamens throws out from the base of the connective a long spur. These staminal spurs project into the spur of the lower petal, and penetrates its whole length. The honey-glands are situated in the somewhat thickened ends of the staminal spurs, whence it drops to the bottom of tlie spur of the corolla, where it remains until sought for by some insect whose trunk is long enough to reach it. I will not weary you with these structural details further than to mention that the stigma, which seems to guard the entrance to the honey- chamber, is quite hollow, and has a remarkable round opening in front. Below this opening, and close in con- tact with the petal, is a recurved lip or valve. There is a bend at what appears to he a weak partof the style, liaving examined the flower thus carefully, we are now in a position to watch the eifect of a bee visiting the pansy in search of honey. The insect alights on tlie broad front petal, thrusts its trunk u
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