. Life and love. Biology; Reproduction. Life and Love. X. PLANT LIFE. NECESSARILY there is a great waste of re- productive material among the plants, par- ticularly of the pollen, and this again recalls certain curious facts of the lower animal life. Much pollen is entirely lost, as it prob- ably takes but one pollen grain to fertilize each ovule ; but a million grains may not be too many to make certain the finding of the ovule by one. The insect is a sure messenger where there is abundance of material; sooner or later the result of fertilization will be accomplished by it, but it might happe
. Life and love. Biology; Reproduction. Life and Love. X. PLANT LIFE. NECESSARILY there is a great waste of re- productive material among the plants, par- ticularly of the pollen, and this again recalls certain curious facts of the lower animal life. Much pollen is entirely lost, as it prob- ably takes but one pollen grain to fertilize each ovule ; but a million grains may not be too many to make certain the finding of the ovule by one. The insect is a sure messenger where there is abundance of material; sooner or later the result of fertilization will be accomplished by it, but it might happen that many visits would be made before pollen was successfully transferred to waiting stigma. The bee, for instance, not only fails sometimes to hurry from one plant to another of the same kind, but is not consciously work- ing for the plant at all. Her con-. 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 Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858-1923. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company
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