. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FLOWERS OF THE FIELD AND FOREST. 63 from younger floxrere. If neglected by insect«, each flower can pollinate its-elf. In this case, the stigmafl recurve until they meet some of the pollen grniiw still clinging to the style. The har<'- bell 19 the famous blue-bell of Scotland, but it has made a new home in every part of Canada. Several native species, how- ever, are found in the Dominion. A com- mon form in the far north is the Arctic harebell. Campanula uniflora, which is from one to six inches
. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FLOWERS OF THE FIELD AND FOREST. 63 from younger floxrere. If neglected by insect«, each flower can pollinate its-elf. In this case, the stigmafl recurve until they meet some of the pollen grniiw still clinging to the style. The har<'- bell 19 the famous blue-bell of Scotland, but it has made a new home in every part of Canada. Several native species, how- ever, are found in the Dominion. A com- mon form in the far north is the Arctic harebell. Campanula uniflora, which is from one to six inches in height, and bears erect, blue flowers. The marsh bellflower, Campanula aparin dos, is abundant from Nova Scotia to the North-Went It_ has a very slender, weak stem, rough with bristles, and bearing small, pale olue or white flowers, which droop in the bud, but later stand erect. The flowers hitherto described are modi- fied for protective purposes, or to ensure cross pollination, an<l all are suppli. ' with green colouring matter and industrijusly work for their living. There arc others, however, which have acquired the habit ot obtaining their food already prepared, and so have become degenerate. No longer needing the machinery by means of which raw materials are converted into plant foods, they have lost their green colour, and their leaves have been reduced to scales. The dodder, -which is a member ol the morning glory family, is an excellent ex- ample. It 19 easily recognized by the cling- ing yellow stems, which twine about grass 69 and other hette, and sending suckers into the bark of the host, steal the it- quired nourisfflment. From July tn September it produces clusters of dull white flowers, which, though , have the ohaniotoristics ot the flowers of green members of the groaiii. Tlio rommonest species in Camulti is Cii-i cuta Gronovii, which rangos from Ni-w linins-wick to the Lake of the Woods. While such parasitic plants prey upon living o
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