go FLOWERS OF THE WOODS AND COPSES 
shower the pollen on the bee’s head. The stamens afterwards bend 
back, so that bees do not touch the anthers, and the 2 stigmas move 
forward into the former place and become more spreading. If insects 
do not visit the flower it is seldom self-pollinated, but insect visits are 
frequent, though the flowers are not large, but strong- or sweet-scented. 
In bending backwards the anthers may touch the stigmas. The honey 
lies in the tissue at the base of the ovary, and fills the tube, which 
is 9-10 mm. long, to a height of 4 mm. Wood Sage is visited by 
Bombus, Anthophora, Saropoda, and £Lrtstales. 
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Woop SaGeE (Zeucrium Scorodonia, L.) 
When the lower flowers have reached the female condition those 
above are still male. Thus a bee first visiting male flowers carries 
the pollen away to a second plant. 
The nutlets, as in other Labiates, are free, and when ripe fall out 
to the ground. 
Wood Sage is a rock plant growing on rock soil, or a sand-lover 
and addicted to a sand soil. It is common on granitic, schistose, and 
slate rocks. 
The leaves are attacked by a fungus Puccznza annularis. 
Beetles have a predilection for Wood Sage, e.g. Apion rubens, Melr- 
gethes bidens, M. obscurus, Byrrhus pilule, Longitarsus pulex, L. distin- 
