8 FLOWERS Oi' THE HILLS AND DRY PLACES 



The flower does not re(]uire to expand, the parts of the llower 

 lying open. Tlic honey-glands secrete honey. The anthers bend down, 

 open, and rise up towards the honey-disk. Three or four carpels de- 

 velop papilke. The stigma projects considerably above the middle of 

 ihc riower, forming a resting-place for insects, and is covered with 

 pollen from other llowers. If insects do not visit it self-pollination 

 ensues. The \isilors arc Mymeno[)tera (Apidse), Prosopis co»ii)iiiii/s. 

 Apis rnellifica, Andrena. Prosopis, a bee with a trowel-like proboscis. 







Dyrr's Wred (Reseda Lulcola) 



is enabled to lift the box formed by the petals over the honey-disk, and 

 in so doing touches the stigma, and becomes dusted also with pollen. 



The seeds are dispersed by the wind. The capsules opening above 

 the seeds are blown out beyond the area of the parent plant, aided b\ 

 the wind. 



Dyer's Weed is a sand plant, requiring a sand soil, and at the same 

 time is a lime-loving plant, subsisting on a lime soil, being found in 

 chalky or oolitic districts. 



No fungi are parasitic on this plant. The Thysanoptera Me/a/io- 

 thrips obesa, yEolothrips parasitica, and the Lepidoptera, Bath White 

 {Pier is Daplidicc) and Scarce-bordered Straw {Hcliothis armiger) feed 

 on it, as also Hright-line Brown-eye [Mavicstra o/cracca). 



Pliny gave the name Reseda, from reseda, I calm, because it was 

 supposed to be a sedative. Lnteola is a diminutive o{ liitea, yellow. 



