. Botany of the living plant. Botany; Plants. Fig. 467. Flowers of Willow {Salix alba), a, male ; b, female; in each case the subtending bract is also shown. (After Figuier.) Pollination. The flowers of both catkins are visited freely by insects, both bees and moths, for honey or for pollen. Self-pollination is obviously im- possible, for the plants are dioecious ; but crossing follows as a natural consequence of the conveyance of the sticky pollen to the protogynous female catkins by ~d> gffluv/7/. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
. Botany of the living plant. Botany; Plants. Fig. 467. Flowers of Willow {Salix alba), a, male ; b, female; in each case the subtending bract is also shown. (After Figuier.) Pollination. The flowers of both catkins are visited freely by insects, both bees and moths, for honey or for pollen. Self-pollination is obviously im- possible, for the plants are dioecious ; but crossing follows as a natural consequence of the conveyance of the sticky pollen to the protogynous female catkins by ~d> gffluv/7/. 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 Bower, F. O. (Frederick Orpen), 1855-1948; Wardlaw, C. W. (Claude Wilson), 1901-. London, Macmillan and Co. , ltd.
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