FLOWER “DUST, OR POLLEN 
HEN a child smells a flower, he is 
apt to put his nose right into the 
middle of the blossom, and to take it out with 
a dab of yellow dust upon its tip. 
When he brushes off this dust, of course 
he does not stop to think that each tiny grain 
holds a speck of the wonderful material we 
read about some time ago, the material with- 
out which there can be no life. 
And probably he does not know that the 
dust grains from the lily are quite unlike 
those which he rubs upon his nose when he 
smells a daisy; that different kinds of flowers 
yield different kinds of flower dust. 
If you should look through a microscope 
at a grain of flower dust from the lily, you 
would see an object resembling Fig. 178. 
Fig. 179 shows a grain from the 
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