244 The Romance of Wild Flowers 
organs as shown in the first of these three diagrams 
of this part. This is of a flower that has only just 
opened. The shaded portions above represent the 
green sepals clasping the narrowed portion of the 
corolla, within which is the pear-shaped ovary 
terminating in the long style. Between the ovary 
and the walls of the tube on either side is a pair of 
stamens, their filaments curiously curved and twisted 
in order to bring them into one plane. Their plump 
purple-dotted yellow anthers are placed more or less 
Three conditions of the Foxglove 
horizontally, overlapping the style. In this flower 
all the organs are iminature, but if we cut open the 
flower next below it on the spike, we shall find its 
condition as shown in the second figure. The anthers 
nearest the mouth of the flower have assumed a 
vertical rather than horizontal position, and have 
burst open, exposing the pollen and dropping some 
among the hairs of the platform below. 
If you will sit down beside the plant, you will be 
able to catch a glimpse of what happens in the flowers 
when a visitor comes. There goes a bee. See, he 
