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PEDICULARIS. 



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honey, pushes them a little apart, thus opening the 

 anther-box and letting down a little shower of pollen, 

 which is prevented from spreading by the fringe of 



a 



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FIG. 108. Pedicularis sylvatica. 



hairs on the lower edge of the anther, and thus falls 

 on to the head of the bee, at the very spot which a 

 moment before had touched the stigma, and which 

 will again touch that of the next flower she visits. 



