Wallflower and Cabbage 87 
If now we strip away a couple of these petals as 
we have already pulled off the sepals, we shall find 
four of the stamens to be very long, 
standing erectly in opposite pairs, 
whilst the remaining two are much 
_ shorter and bend away from the 
pistil. It will also be seen that 
these short stamens stand in front 
of the side sepals with the bulged 
base, and if we examine these two 
sepals closely, we shall see that at 
the base of each there is a little 
glandular disk which _ secretes 
honey, and this flows into the 
pouched base of the sepal. The 
two short stamens bending out- 
Rae i “ Stamens and Style of 
wards leave a_tolerably open owes: 
space on either side of the pistil 
down to the honey-pouch. <A long-tongued insect 
ahghting on the expanded portion (limb) 
of the petals, must lay its trunk in the stigma 
notch and pass it between the ovary and the 
short stamen in order to reach the honey, 
and in so doing gets it dusted with pollen 
from the anther. On visiting another flower, 
this pollen will be scraped off the insect’s 
proboscis by the stigmas as it passes between 
them, and so cross-fertilisation be brought 
about. The ovary lengthens into a long 
slender pod like that of the Horned Poppy, 
but straight and much shorter. It sets the 
seeds free by the splitting off of the valve 
Seed-vessel of 
Wallflower 1£rom bottom to top. 
