. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. 304 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. brushes, for this floret is purely female, having no anthers. No pollen requires sweeping out, and, there- fore, brushes, which could effect no purpose, are not formed ; and again, had this floret produced pollen, it could not have been utilised, at least on the same flower-head, since all the florets are proterandrous, the younger in this matter serving the elder, and so absolving the eldes
. Bees & bee-keeping; scientific and practical. A complete treatise on the anatomy, physiology, floral relations, and profitable management of the hive bee. Bee culture; Bees. 304 BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. brushes, for this floret is purely female, having no anthers. No pollen requires sweeping out, and, there- fore, brushes, which could effect no purpose, are not formed ; and again, had this floret produced pollen, it could not have been utilised, at least on the same flower-head, since all the florets are proterandrous, the younger in this matter serving the elder, and so absolving the eldest of all from the need of pollen-. Fig. 64.—A, Capitulum of One of the Composite—rf. Ray-floret B Section of Part of One of the Composite (Cineraria), Magnified Ten times; Lettering as Fig. 63. production. Although the plan throughout the order is so similar that the comprehension of one example gives the key to every other, yet there are variations of detail which must be remembered. Thus in some composite flower-heads every floret bears a ray as in the dandelion; or all may be tubular and perfect as in the spear thistle; or the outermost florets neuter as in the corn bluebottle ; or female, as in the case just examined; or monoecious, those of the disk beino- male. 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 Cheshire, Frank Richard, 1833?-1894. London, L. U. Gill
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