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that its mouth is cut into five short lobes which curve 
outwardly. 
Years ago it was taught, and with good show of 
reason, that this bell was so hung on its stem to 
enable the pollen to fall from the anthers upon the 
stigmas, whilst the vaulted roof kept out the rain. 
But this was one of the inferences drawn from a too 
hasty consideration, without regarding all the facts 
of the case, and a precisely similar mistake was made 
in the case of the Fuchsia. Those who made the 
statement overlooked the important fact that the 
sticky, stigmatic surface, which is alone sensitive to 
the pollen, is underneath, and cannot receive the 
fertilising powder. 
Now, this bell-shaped flower tells a similar tale to 
that told by the florets of the Daisy and Dandelion, 
as well as by other flowers we have already considered : 
in order to adapt them better for the visits of insects 
the five petals have been soldered together by their 
edges, but the tips of those petals have been left as 
projecting lobes to serve as developmental clues. As 
in those Dandelion florets, we find the calyx-lobes are 
here above the ovary, which is divided into several 
cells, each containing a number of seed-eggs. There 
are five stamens springing from the disk, and the base 
of each filament is flattened out and very broad, the 
five of them forming a vaulted chamber over the 
honey-glands around the pistil. The style ends in a 
club-shaped head, which divides later on into three 
or five stigmatic arms. A little below this thickened 
portion the style is covered with hairs. 
When the flower opens, the anthers are all pressed 
against the hairy part of the style, and shed their 
