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tion at not finding what she expected. Whether all 

 are equally dense it is difficult to say; but certainly I 

 have at different times watched several acting thus. 



Sooner or later she generally meets with success. 

 Then she remains for some seconds, gathering the nectar 

 that she loves. And while so occupied, something else 



POLLINATION BY BEE. 



is apt to happen. If the pollen is ripe, part of it sticks 

 to her legs, and probably to her body as well. This she 

 carries away to the next flower into which she plunges ; 

 and as she buzzes and squirms about, a little of it is 

 rubbed off, to remain on the pistil or pistils of the second 

 flower. 



Such is the mode in which bees and numberless insects 

 carry on the work which winds undertake with grasses. 



