. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. HOW PLANTS MARRY. 83 this difficult paradox. I know it is difficult; but, if only you will face it, it will throw floods of light in due time on parts of our sul '3ct we must consider hereafter. So let us Iooa at it close. A hive is a community. It consists for the most part of workers, who are practically neither male nor female. They are nputers, as we say; and their main work is to find food'f )r the whole hive, including them- selves and the grubs or larvao which are the young of the species. But, in addition to these workers, the hive has a que
. Plant life [microform]. Botany; Botanique. HOW PLANTS MARRY. 83 this difficult paradox. I know it is difficult; but, if only you will face it, it will throw floods of light in due time on parts of our sul '3ct we must consider hereafter. So let us Iooa at it close. A hive is a community. It consists for the most part of workers, who are practically neither male nor female. They are nputers, as we say; and their main work is to find food'f )r the whole hive, including them- selves and the grubs or larvao which are the young of the species. But, in addition to these workers, the hive has a queen, who is the only per- ^.^ ik . fo^f fc^r^ryL ^ "^' ^^'—^ FLOWER, WITH IIS PETALS tect^ temale, or removed. Outside are five stamens, motner, and who which produce pollen : in the centre lays the eggs ^^ *^^ pistil, which contains the from which the °''"^^^ °' ^^""8 ^^^^s- lar\aB are produced; and it has also several drones, who are the males of the community, ana fathers of the larvse. Thus we have a colony or city, as it were, consisting of a few males, a smgle female, and a whole body of worker r j feeder neuters. Now, a higher plant, like a cherry-uee (to take a particular example), is just such a colony or joint community. The leaves, each of \/nich is a distinct and almost self-supporting indi- vidual, are its workers and feeders. Like the. 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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