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this same plant. The stamens have shed their pollen, 
and are quite dry and withered; but its pistil has 
straightened itself, and spreads out its 
four tips so as to receive the pollen from 
another flower. 
It is believed that those seeds which 
are touched with life by pollen from 
another flower are more likely to 
change into healthy, hardy plants 
af than those which are quickened by 
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the pollen of their own flower. 
Such of you as ve near the sea 
know the lovely sea pinks (Fig. 237), 
a which make a rosy carpet across the 
eee salt meadows early in August. The 
stamens and pistils of this sea pink act in the same way. 
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FLOWERS THAT TURN, NIGHT INTO DAM 
LREADY we have read that certain flowers attract 
insects rather by their fragrance than by their 
brilliancy of coloring. 
It is interesting to learn that some blossoms open 
