. Birds and nature . ary, the bee hasonly to descend towards it, when her leg,touching against one of the hair-trig-gers of the spring trap, pop ! goes the lit-tle-anther-gun, discharging pollen fromits bores as it flies upward. So deli-cately is the mechanism adjusted, theslightest jar or rough handling releasesthe anthers; but, on the other hand,should insects be excluded by a netstretched over the plant, the flowers willfall off and Wither without firing off theirpollen-charged guns. At least this istrue in the great majority of tests. Asin the case of hot-house flowers, no fertileseed is s
. Birds and nature . ary, the bee hasonly to descend towards it, when her leg,touching against one of the hair-trig-gers of the spring trap, pop ! goes the lit-tle-anther-gun, discharging pollen fromits bores as it flies upward. So deli-cately is the mechanism adjusted, theslightest jar or rough handling releasesthe anthers; but, on the other hand,should insects be excluded by a netstretched over the plant, the flowers willfall off and Wither without firing off theirpollen-charged guns. At least this istrue in the great majority of tests. Asin the case of hot-house flowers, no fertileseed is set when nets keep away thelaurels benefactors. Many of our readers reside near thehome of the Mountain Laurel and canexamine the interesting features of thisbeautiful plant in Natures own that do this will be well repaid. Violets stir and arbutus waits, Claytonias rosy bells unfold;Dandelion through the meadow makes A royal road, with seals of gold. —Helen Hunt Jackson. 232 UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOISURBANA. FROM KCEHLER9 MEDICINAL-PF LA NZEN.■IKi HOPS. CHICAGO:A. W. MUMFORD PUBLISHER. HOPS. [Humulus lupulus L.) A land of hops and poppy-ming-led fields. —Tennyson: Aylmers Field. The hop plant is a creeping perennialwith several stems or branches attaininga length of fifteen to twenty-five feet. Ithas numerous opposite three to fivelobed, palmately veined, coarsely toothedleaves with long leaf stalks (petioles).Flowers unisexual, that is staminate andpistillate flowers separate, either on sep-arate plants (dioecious) or upon differentbranches of the same plant (monoecious).Flowers insignificant in loose, droopingaxillary panicles. Fruit a cone-like catkinusually designated a strobile. The hop has been called the northernvine. It is found in a wild state through-out Europe, excepting the extreme north,and extends east to the Caucasus andthrough central Asia. It is a handsomeplant and not infrequently used as an ar-bor plant. The lower or basal leaves arevery large,
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