REPRODUCTION BY SEED AB 
perhaps enough about pollination and the part played 
therein by insects, to enable them to investigate the 
process, at any rate up to a certain point, in any plant 
that happens to come under observation. I need, 
therefore, do no more than remind the reader that he 
must look for the pollen in the stamens, and that he 
will find the seedlets, often as small as the head of a 
little pin, or considerably smaller, in that part of the 
flower which is called the ovary, that in connection 
with the ovary is a more or less sticky organ known 
as the stigma, and that if the seedlets are ever to 
mature as seeds, some of the pollen grains must be 
deposited upon it. 
The transfer of the grains to the stigma is called 
simply “‘ Pollination.” 
Unfortunately, pollen grains are too small to be 
studied without a micro- 
scope, but there are many 
different kinds of ovary 
and stigma that can be : 
observed either with the 
naked eye or with the help 
of a lens. 
Sometimes, as in the 
Primrose, we find that 
the ovary at the base of 
the flower has a long pole 
with a round stigma at 
the top; the long pole is, 8, Pils, Primus 
called the style. Now if style, x 2; ©, Wallflower, short 
we look at the Poppy we style, x 2. Stg., stigma; St. 
- style; O., ovary. 
shall find a large ovary in 
the centre of the blossom, its top is vaulted, and in- 
stead of a round stigma we have a number of sticky 

