SHOOTING-STAR 



loose terminal arrangement and hang from slender, 

 curving stems which spring from the tip of the stalk. 



There is a large group of flowers of which the potato 

 in our fields and the tomato in our gardens are common 

 examples, with protruding cones made up of the united 

 stamens so arranged, apparently, that the visiting in- 

 sect which seeks the honey must jar out pollen from the 

 end of the cone and receive it upon the under side of 

 its body, the more surely to distribute it. This stamen 

 cone is a very marked characteristic of the blossoms of 

 Shooting-Star. 



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