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are fat, yellow and globular; each anther has a short filament which curls up 

 at the tip and holds the stamen up ; but when the pollen ripens, the filament 

 straightens out and the opening anther hangs down below its unopened com- 

 rades, but never so far down as the stigmas; note that each day a few more 

 stamens straighten down; note that there are five stigmas tipping the thread- 

 like styles each of which leads back to an ovary filled with ovules. The whole 



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process of shedding pollen should be watched, and also the hummingbird and 

 insect visitors and their actions in getting nectar from the flower; note that 

 the columbine buds are at first all green and describe the changes that take 

 place until the flower blossoms: describe and sketch the seed capsule with its 

 five pockets each with an opening near the tip to let the seeds out ; note that 

 the lower leaves are three-lobed and the lobes are lobed ; and the upper leaves 

 are simple and bract-like at the bases of the flower stems; have the pupils 

 describe all of the kinds of columbines that they know. 



April 



Phoebe Bird 



Gaunt forests, misty green with young leaves, seem 

 Reflections pale of emerald fields below. 



Athwart their depths, white shad-bush pennants stream, 

 Fair springtime dreams of branches hung with snow. 



