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stigmas pressed together with a hairy fringe below 

 them (III.). N"ow, as the style elongates, the fringe 

 sweeps out the pollen, which is shed inside the 

 anther- tube (I. and II.), and so brings it out at the 

 top. JTot till then do the two branches of the stigma 

 spread out, just as in Roel'lct (Fig. 11). Although 

 the pollen cannot readily fall on the spread-out sticky 



I. n. in. 



Fig. 14. — Lohe'lia. I. Vertical section of flower. II. Stamens, anthers closed over 

 stigma. III. Style and stigmas. 



stigmas, which are above the fringe, on which Avill 

 be the pollen, yet it has got it out all ready for an 

 insect to carry it off to some other flower in which 

 the stigmas are outspread to receive it. 



Precisely the same method occurs in the " florets " 

 of the so-called " Flowers " of the great family of 

 Composites, as will be seen from the figures given of 

 that familv. 



