2O4 EYE SPY 
was their significance fully understood ; and yet 
each of these presents but one of several equally 
puzzling features in the same flowers from which 
they were taken. 
In that first anther, for example, why those 
pores at the tip of the cells, instead of the usual 
slits at the sides, and why that pair of horns at 
the back ? And the next one, with longer tubes, 
and the same two horns besides! Then there is 
that queer specimen with flapping ears one of 
six from the barberry blossom ; and the pointed, 
arrow-headed individual with a long plume from 
its apex; and the curved C- shaped specimen 
one of a pair of twins which hide beneath the 
hood of the sage blossom. The lily anther, which 
comes last, is poised in the centre. Why? What 
puzzles to the mere botanist ! for it is because 
these eminent scholars were mere botanists stu- 
dents and chroniclers of the structural facts of 
flowers that this revelation of the truth about 
these blossom features was withheld from them. 
It was not until they had become philosophers 
and true seers, not until they sought the divine 
significance, the reason, which lay behind or be- 
neath these facts, that the flowers disclosed their 
mysteries to them. 
Look at that random row of petals, too ! one 
with a peacock's eye, two others with dark spots, 
and next the queer-fingered petal of the migno- 
