322 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



The style is short. In the terminal flowers there 

 are eight stamens, in the lateral ones ten stamens. 

 The fruit is ovoid or round. The plant turns black 

 when dry. 



The flowers bloom in July and August. The plant 

 is a perennial saprophyte, growing to a height of a 

 foot. 



The anthers and stigma ripen at the same time. 

 In the terminal flowers the honey lies in eight 

 glands, in the lateral ones in ten at the base of 

 the ovary, projecting into hollows in the corolla. 

 The hairs on the styles enable the plant to avoid 

 self-pollination. 



The capsule opens by five valves, and the seeds, 

 being minute, may be dispersed by the wind. 



The only names by which the Yellow Bird's Nest 

 is known are Bird's-nest, Pine-sap. 



MoNOTROPA Hypopitys. — III Fig. 71 the flowering 

 stem is shown with scales in place of leaves , white or 

 yellow in colour, with the flower drooping in one case, 

 then erect, forming a terminal raceme, 



45. The Sea Lavender Group. 



There are two British types of the order Plumba- 

 ginacese, the Thrifts and the Sea Lavenders. In the 

 former the flowers are in a bracteate head, in the 

 latter they are in panicled one-sided cymes. 



There are about two hundred and eighty species 

 included in ten genera, which have a world-wide 



