. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. he scarlet clematis areknown as red bells in her region,and adds this charming paragraph :Turn to the names that science andlegend give the columbine : Aquile-gia, the Latin cognomen, for thelikeness of the flowers petals to aneagles claws; columbine, from the gaudy mate of harlequin, for the re-semblance of the flower to the capwhich folly wears ; and another yet,touching both flower and season,handed down from the monks of old,who, with loving sentiment, wroughtflowered margins to their missals andbooks of hours,—c
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress. he scarlet clematis areknown as red bells in her region,and adds this charming paragraph :Turn to the names that science andlegend give the columbine : Aquile-gia, the Latin cognomen, for thelikeness of the flowers petals to aneagles claws; columbine, from the gaudy mate of harlequin, for the re-semblance of the flower to the capwhich folly wears ; and another yet,touching both flower and season,handed down from the monks of old,who, with loving sentiment, wroughtflowered margins to their missals andbooks of hours,—columbine, a dove,the sign of the Holy Ghost, who de-scended in the cloven tongues of flameat the feast of Pentecost; and so, to-dayat the Pentecostal season, the fierytongues flaming on the gray New Eng-land rocks repeat the The columbine is found in blos-som from April until June, the heightof its season in New England occur-ring in May. The long spurs con-tain in their enlarged tips a store ofnectar that is eagerly sought by thequeen bumble bees abroad during. Columbine. the period of blooming. Normally,these visitors alight on the open endof the flower, inserting their •? -through the tubes to the spur. A> they • The * Friends! 2QO VIGNETTES OF SPRING BLOSSOMS. make the circuit of the five nectarspurs the lower parts of their bodiesas well as their legs rub against thestamens and pistils. In young blos-soms the pistils only are extendedagainst the body of the visitor, thestamens being, as yet, curved upwithin the flower. These soon curveout, however, so that the abundantpollen is ready to be carried fromblossom to blossom. The result ofthis arrangement is that cross-pollina-tion is very likely to occur throughthe bees bringing to newly openedflowers the pollen from those longeropen. Many of the bumble-bees, however,have learned that it is not necessaryto enter at the door to gain thesweets; they bite through the thinpetal-like substance of the spurs,
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