. Botany for young people : Part II. How plants behave ; how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, & c. Botany. Fig. 9. Plower of Bleeding-heart, Dicentra spectabilis Fig. 10 Same, ^th the tips of the united inner petals pushed to one side. Fig. 11. Tips of the six stamens and pistil, which are exposed in Fig. 10, here separated and dis- played, magnified, 38. If it be wonderful that such flowers as the last do not well fertilize without help, although constructed, as we should say, expressly to do it, equally wonderful is it to find blossoms with anthers and stigma placed clo
. Botany for young people : Part II. How plants behave ; how they move, climb, employ insects to work for them, & c. Botany. Fig. 9. Plower of Bleeding-heart, Dicentra spectabilis Fig. 10 Same, ^th the tips of the united inner petals pushed to one side. Fig. 11. Tips of the six stamens and pistil, which are exposed in Fig. 10, here separated and dis- played, magnified, 38. If it be wonderful that such flowers as the last do not well fertilize without help, although constructed, as we should say, expressly to do it, equally wonderful is it to find blossoms with anthers and stigma placed close together, but with some, obstacle interposed, as shown on near examination; which looks as if the object were how not to do it. 39. Iris-flowers are of this sort. There is a stamen to each of the three stig- mas, and close beside it. Behind each stamen and partly overhanging it is a petal-like body, peculiar to Iris or Flower-de-Luce : these three bodies, appearing like supernumerary petals, are divisions of the style, in a peculiar form, notched at the end; under the notch is the stigma, in the form of a thin plate. We notice that the stigma is higher than the anther; but that is only a part of 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor
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