. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. THE WIND AS CARRIER. 137 Btamans by its side, showing that they are descended from earlier combined malo-and- female ancestors. The relics, however, consist of mere empty stalks or filaments, without any pollen-sacks. Of course there are no petals. Male and female plants grow in little groups not far from one another ; and the pollen, which is dry and dusty, is carried by the wind from the hanging stamens of the males to the large and salient stigma of the female flowers. A still better ex- ample of a wind- fertilised blossom is afforded us by the c
. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. THE WIND AS CARRIER. 137 Btamans by its side, showing that they are descended from earlier combined malo-and- female ancestors. The relics, however, consist of mere empty stalks or filaments, without any pollen-sacks. Of course there are no petals. Male and female plants grow in little groups not far from one another ; and the pollen, which is dry and dusty, is carried by the wind from the hanging stamens of the males to the large and salient stigma of the female flowers. A still better ex- ample of a wind- fertilised blossom is afforded us by the common English salad - burnet, a pretty little weed, very frequent on close-cropped chalk downs (Fig. 27). Here the individual fig. 27.,—A, male, and B, female flowers are ez floweb op salad-burnet, very tremely smaU, and "^""^^ magnified. The flowers +l,^,r Lr. J J g'^^w together in little tasspl- they are crowded nk© heads. into a sort of mop- like head at the top of the stem. They have lost their petals, which are now of no use to them; but they retain a calyx of four sepals, to represent the original five still found among their relations. For salad-burnet, in spite of its .nconspicuous- ness, bel mgs to the family of the roses, and we can still trace in this order a regular gradation from handsome flowers like the dog-rose, through. 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 Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. London : Hodder and Stoughton
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