. Handbook of flower pollination : based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' . Fertilization of plants. LILIACEAE 463 stigma mature simultaneously, but automatic self-pollination is excluded, for these organs do not come into contact, there being about 3 mm. distance between them. So long as I observed the honey-bee only as quite a casual visitor, I was of opinion that regular autogamy was probable as well as pollination, by means of the extremely violent wind prevailing in the islands. The filaments are 3-4 mm. long, and beset with very numerous dense yellow
. Handbook of flower pollination : based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' . Fertilization of plants. LILIACEAE 463 stigma mature simultaneously, but automatic self-pollination is excluded, for these organs do not come into contact, there being about 3 mm. distance between them. So long as I observed the honey-bee only as quite a casual visitor, I was of opinion that regular autogamy was probable as well as pollination, by means of the extremely violent wind prevailing in the islands. The filaments are 3-4 mm. long, and beset with very numerous dense yellow hairs, almost one mm. long and directed obliquely upwards, which not only increase the conspicuousness of the flowers, but also serve as hold-fasts for insects, and as weels for catching pollen. Sometimes this is temporarily deposited here when it has missed the stigma of the same flower until it is carried to it by a fresh gust of wind, when automatic self-pollination is effected, and sometimes the pollen is carried by the wind to a flower of an adjacent plant, when it is again caught first by the filament-hairs and transferred thence to the stigma when occasion offers, crossing thus being brought about. It may be seen that this latter occurrence is not exactly rare from the fact that numerous pollen- masses—sharply distinguished from the yellow filament-hairs by their yellow-red. 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 Knuth, Paul, 1854-1899; Knuth, Paul, 1854-1899; Mu?ller, Hermann, 1829-1883; Ainsworth Davis, J. R. (James Richard), 1861-1934. Oxford : Clarendon Press
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