288 Field, Forest, and Wayside Flowers 



These flowers in their turn are massed in clus- 

 ters, which are borne near the tips of boughs and 

 twigs, where the wind can have its will with them. 

 By latter May they are golden and conspicuous, 

 and their abundant pollen flies from them in light 

 clouds. 



The staminal leaf-clusters, or staminate flowers, 



FIG. 8 1. Flowers of the Scotch pine (Pinus syhestris). 



a, Staminate flower; 6, a single "staminal leat " ; r, pistillate flower; d, upper 

 surface of a carpel showing the two attached ovules ; *-, lower surface of a 

 carpel. (From the Vegetable World.) 



of the hemlock are more difficult to find, for they 

 are not much larger than grains of rice, and they 

 grow on the under surfaces of the branches. 



Those of the junipers and red cedars make their 

 presence evident by giving a yellow tinge to the 

 boughs which bear them, but they are so tiny and 

 so hidden among the leaves that one wonders how 

 even the wind is able to find them out. 



By time these humble flowers are prepared to 



