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The short style with slanting hairs below the 
stigma forms a brush with the anthers around, which 
shed their pollen on them before the stigma is ripe, 
the hairs overtopping the stigma, and lying in the 
pouch of the carina, emerging when depressed by a 
narrow cavity at the tip of the alz, which are united. 
The insect settles on the alz, which act as levers, 
being connected at two points with the margin of 
the carina, a fold fitting in the pouch of the carina 
behind the pollen cavity. The ale and carina return 
by an elastic movement to their position after an 
insect’s visit, processes being adapted to accomplish 
this. The stigma becomes sticky when touched. 
The visitors are chiefly flies, bees, and some butter- 
flies. 
The pod has woody fibres arranged at half a right 
angle to the pod, and the valves curl up in cork-screw 
fashion, so that when they are dry the pods shoot the 
seeds out in all directions. 
Blue Tar-fitch, Cat Peas, Cow Vetch, Wild 
Fetches, Huggaback Pea, Tar Grass, Wild Tare, 
Thetch are some of the names bestowed upon this 
lovely wild flower. 
THE ROSE GROUP. 
The Rose being the national emblem of England, 
apart from the beauty of the flower itself, this order 
is one of the most important in the British flora. 
The order contains 2000 species and go genera. 
