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The hobblebush has still another way of attracting 
attention to its blossoms. It surrounds a cluster of 
those flowers which have stamens 
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do their proper work in the world, 
with a few large blossoms 
which have neither stamens 
nor pistils, but which are made 
up chiefly of a showy white 
b corolla. These striking blossoms 
serve to call attention to their 
smaller but more useful sisters. 
Sometimes a whole plant 
family will play this trick of 
putting a quantity 
3 of flowers in one bunch or 
Fic. 262  ~_— cluster. 
The wild carrot (Fig. 263) is one of our 
commonest wayside weeds, a torment to 
the farmer, but a beautiful plant 
nevertheless. Each one of its lace- ee 
like flower clusters is made up of 
many flowers, — flowers which are too 
small to live alone, and so have decided 
to keep house together. 
You will notice that here, as with the 
hobblebush, the outer flowers are larger and 
more showy than the inner ones. They seem 
to feel that with them rests the reputation of "> 703 
the family; that they must make the most of themselves, 
and do alj in their power to attract the bees and butterflies. 
