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pretty blue flower of the chicory. Fig. 180 is a dust 
grain from the flower of the pine tree. Fig./181 is 
from the laurel, and the odd- 
looking Fig. 182 is from a dust 
box of the evening primrose. 
The next picture (Fig. 183) 
shows you a group of dust 
grains from flowers of different kinds, one looking 
like a porcupine, another like a sea shell, another like 
some strange water animal, and all, I fancy, quite 
unlike any idea you may have had as to the appear- 
-ance of a grain of flower dust. 
When you are older, I hope it may be your good luck 
to see through a microscope some of the odd shapes and 
curious markings of different kinds of flower dust, or 
“pollen,” as this flower dust is called in the books. 
And now that you know something of the appear- 
ance of flower dust, perhaps you wish to learn a little 
more of the way in which it helps the flower to 
turn into the fruit. 
ABOUT. PISEILS 
UT first you must know a little something about 
the pistil, if I am really to make clear to you 
how the flower dust helps the flower to change into 
fruit. 
This picture (Fig. 184) shows you the pistil of the 
#@ lily. At the foot of this pistil, you remember, is the 
“Fic 184 box which holds the lily’s seeds. 
