. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Pansies. Drawn by Anna C. Stryke. THE PANSY Teacher's Story OME people are pansy-faced and some pansies are human- faced, and for some occult reason this puts people and pansies on a distinctly chummy basis. When we analyze the pansy face, we find that the dark spots at the bases of the side petals make the eyes, the lines radiating from them looking quite eyelashy. The opening to the nectar- tube makes the nose, while the spot near the base of the lower petal has to do for a mouth, t
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Pansies. Drawn by Anna C. Stryke. THE PANSY Teacher's Story OME people are pansy-faced and some pansies are human- faced, and for some occult reason this puts people and pansies on a distinctly chummy basis. When we analyze the pansy face, we find that the dark spots at the bases of the side petals make the eyes, the lines radiating from them looking quite eyelashy. The opening to the nectar- tube makes the nose, while the spot near the base of the lower petal has to do for a mouth, the nectar guiding-lines being not unlike whiskers. Meanwhile, the two upper petals give a "high-browed" look to the pansy counten- ance, and make it a wise and knowing little face. The pansy nectar is hidden in the spur made by the lower petal extend- ing behind the flower. The guiding lines on the lower and side petals all converge, pointing directly to the openinjr 'Vhich leads to this nectar-well, telling the secret to every bee that flies. Moreover, the broad lower petal is a platform for the lady bee to alight upon, while she probes the nectar- well with her tongue. But at the door leading to the nectar-well sits a little man; his head is green, he wears a white cape with a scalloped, reddish brown collar, and he sits with his bandy legs pushed back into the spur as if he were taking a foot bath in nectar. This little pansy man has plenty of work to do; for his mouth, which is large and at the top of his green head, is the stigma. The cape is made of five overlapping stamens, the brown, scalloped collar being the anthers; his legs consist of prolongations of the two lower stamens. And when the bee probes the nectar-well with her tongue, she tickles the little man's feet so that his head and shoulders wriggle; and thus she brushes the pollen dust from his collar against her fuzzy face, and at the same time his mouth receives the pollen from her dusty little
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