supposed that the intention of 
the blossom was the reception 
of its own pollen, a fact which ; 
\ 
: 
W> ; r >&*&>./?& > 
was again soon 
seen to be im- 
possible, as the stigmas 
of many flowers are closed when 
their own pollen is being shed. 
It remained for Darwin seventy 
years later to interpret the prob- 
lem. Insects were intentionally 
attracted to the flower; but the pollen 
with which their bodies thus became 
dusted was designed to be carried to 
the stigmas of another flower, show- 
ing cross -fertilization to be the in- 
tention in nearly all blossoms. 
