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long. The flowers are homogamous, the anthers and 

 stigmas being ripe together. There are two stigmas, 

 which are close together. The stamens are attached 

 to the corolla and bent towards the centre. Owing 

 to this arrangement an insect more usually is dusted 

 with pollen on leaving a flower than on entering one, 

 so that cross-pollination is most likely, and one side 

 of the insect is dusted with pollen while the other 

 touches the stigma. If insects do not come to the 

 flower pollen falls on the stigma and self-pollination 

 follows. There are sometimes two forms of flower. 

 In one the petals are blunt, white, and smooth, 

 whilst in the second they are rough on the upper 

 surface of the limb, and there is a red elliptical 

 line, and a second red line which crosses the long 

 axis of the ellipse, the petals being bent back into 

 a long point. Bees and flies are the chief visitors. 



The fruit is granulate, not hooked, and may fall 

 close to the plant. 



The Squinancy Wort is also called Herb of Vine, 

 Herb Squynantyke, Quinsey-wort, Shepherd's Bed- 

 straw, Squinancy. 



AsPERULA CYNANCHiCA. — III Fig. 6i the stoloni- 

 feroiis rootstock is shown, also the linear leaves, below in 

 whorls of four, as a rule, bent back, and above with two 

 in a whorl. The terminal clusters of flowers are also 

 shown. 



