STINGING POD AND BRISTLE 



Magnified view, with millimeter scale, of part of the pod of Stizolohitim pruritiim, from India 

 The closely set stmgmg bristles are nearly erect. This pod was eight centimeters long At 

 the right is a photograph of a smgle stinging bristle from the pod shown, with scale in tenths 

 and hundredths of a millimeter. The gummy substance in the tip is conspicuous. The 

 mmute dots seen, especially toward the base, are the colorless knobs referred to in the text 

 This bristle was reddish-yellow. (Fig. 7.) 



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