. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. THE FLOWBB 125 XXI.—THE PLOWEK.—Part VII. WiND-FBKTILIZBD PlOWBES. 1. Flowers that use the wind to scatter their pollen. Plowers cannot leave the place where they were born; and so, in order to scatter their pollen, they must make use of carriers. We have seen how some of them pay the insects to do this work ; and now we have to look at those flowers that make use of the wind. This is a common plan among the trees and grasses. We shall look first of
. First studies in plant life in Australasia, with numerous questions, directions for outdoor work, and drawing and composition exercises. Botany. THE FLOWBB 125 XXI.—THE PLOWEK.—Part VII. WiND-FBKTILIZBD PlOWBES. 1. Flowers that use the wind to scatter their pollen. Plowers cannot leave the place where they were born; and so, in order to scatter their pollen, they must make use of carriers. We have seen how some of them pay the insects to do this work ; and now we have to look at those flowers that make use of the wind. This is a common plan among the trees and grasses. We shall look first of all at the oak, which is one of the many trees that use this way of spreading their pollen. 2. How the oak tree makes seed. —Look at an oak tree in the spring time, just as the beautiful light green leaves are breaking out of the buds ; and you will see long, loose tassels or catkins that wave in the breeze. Use your lens, and you will see that the tassel is made up of clusters of small flowers that bear pollen. Shake the tassel, and a shower of pollen will fall. There are no pistils in these tassel-flowers of the oak; so that we guess at once that the pistil-bearing flowers are either on other parts of the tree or on other oak trees. Ah ! here they are ; on the same branch a little higher up, and snugly sheltered between the leaf-stalk and the stem. These pistil-bearing flowers. Catkin of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gillies, William. Melbourne, Whitcombe & Tombs, Ltd
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