. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. 232 THE FLOWER grance only after sunset. A nodding position is assumed by many flowers at night or during a shower to keep the pollen from being injured by rain and 458, 459. — A bell flower: 458, position in daylight; 459, position at night, or during wet weather. 336. Fraud and Robbery. — The secretion of honey by flowers is a very common means of attracting insect visit- ors. In general, plants that have very long, tubular corollas, like the trumpet honeysuckle {Lonicera sempervirens), and trumpet vine, are reserv
. Botany all the year round; a practical text-book for schools. Botany. 232 THE FLOWER grance only after sunset. A nodding position is assumed by many flowers at night or during a shower to keep the pollen from being injured by rain and 458, 459. — A bell flower: 458, position in daylight; 459, position at night, or during wet weather. 336. Fraud and Robbery. — The secretion of honey by flowers is a very common means of attracting insect visit- ors. In general, plants that have very long, tubular corollas, like the trumpet honeysuckle {Lonicera sempervirens), and trumpet vine, are reserving their sweets for humming birds and long-tongued moths and butterflies. Acleisanthes, a plant of the four-o'clock family that grows along our Mexican border (Fig. 460), has a tube from twelve to four- teen centimeters long (about five and one half inches). Yet even deeper corollas than this can be explored by a humming bird of South America, which has a bill that some- times reaches the length of fifteen centi- 460. —Tubu- meters (about six inches), and a tongue that lar blossom of ^.^n be protruded nearly as far again (Fig. Acleisanthes - . , . , \- , longiflora. 4di)- ^^^ ^^ not uncommon, however, to find. 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 Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book company
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