. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. ^,..VV| r^!.^ Manners and How they Charm the Insects t If the dainty mechanism shown in . ^ the barberry, pulse, primrose, and madder famiHes excites our wonder, what shall be said of the revelations in the great order of the Compositae, where each so-called flower, as in the dan- delion, daisy, cone-flower, marigold, thistle, golden-rod, aster, and innumerable other s
. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. ^,..VV| r^!.^ Manners and How they Charm the Insects t If the dainty mechanism shown in . ^ the barberry, pulse, primrose, and madder famiHes excites our wonder, what shall be said of the revelations in the great order of the Compositae, where each so-called flower, as in the dan- delion, daisy, cone-flower, marigold, thistle, golden-rod, aster, and innumerable other species, is really a dense cluster of minute flowers, each as perfect in its construction as in the examples already mentioned, each with its own peculiar plan designed to insure the transfer of its own pollen to the stigma of its neighbor, while excluding it from its own ? All summer long the cone-flower, or brown-eyed Susan, Ritdbcckia hirta^ shown in the chapter heading, blooms in our fields; but how few of us imagine the strange processes which are being enacted in that purple cone ! Let us examine it 67. 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 Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896; Davie, Eleanor E. New York, Newson
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