. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FKI. LXXXI. -JrOWKL-WKKD, OK TUUC;iI ME NOT. siwcies. Though bumble-bees amd similar in- sects visit these flo^vers the ruby-throated IiuniininK bird is the most welcome guast. His slender bill is especially well adapted to the eross-pollination of this flower, for as he hovers abo\e it and itiru^ts his bill obliquely into the spur, he cannot fail to come in contact with both stigma and anthers. T-ite in the season, the jewel- weed produces cicistogamoua flowers. Thj flnral envelopes never open, bu
. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FKI. LXXXI. -JrOWKL-WKKD, OK TUUC;iI ME NOT. siwcies. Though bumble-bees amd similar in- sects visit these flo^vers the ruby-throated IiuniininK bird is the most welcome guast. His slender bill is especially well adapted to the eross-pollination of this flower, for as he hovers abo\e it and itiru^ts his bill obliquely into the spur, he cannot fail to come in contact with both stigma and anthers. T-ite in the season, the jewel- weed produces cicistogamoua flowers. Thj flnral envelopes never open, but are forced off by the growing pod and carried upward ur'on its tip. Thoueh the roadsides and swamps are very rich in August flower?, rocky ravines are not destitute. Clinging to the steep banks of rivers and rooted in shadv sandy uplands, the slight haiebeil. Campanula rotundifolia. sways on tnread-like stalks. The slender stems from six inches to three feet high are furnished, near the base, with rounded leflves. which soon wiither away (Fig. LXXXir., 2), wlulo above, the leaves are long and narrow (Fig. LXXXII., 1). Briffht blue or violet- tinted bells tremble in every breeze (F'g LXXXIT., 3). Both cnlyx and corolla arc. FIG. five-lobed, and the former is united to the ovary. There are five separate stamens, with broad filaments, which are loined to the calyx-tube at the top ot ctie ovrry. The pistil haa three stigmas and a three- celled ovary, which ripens into an egg-shap- ed, drooriing iwd, opening near the base bv little clefts. The stamens mature and shed their contents even in the bud, but the IJollen is prevented from falling out by hnirB upon ihe upper sid'^ of the style. Later (lie stamens wither nd the elongat- ing pistil opena its three . ^mas, the under surface of which im sticky, serving to catch the pollen brought by bumblebees. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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