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FLOWERS OF THE WOODS AND COPSES 



shower the pollen on the bee's head. The stamens afterwards bend 

 back, so that bees do not touch the anthers, and the 2 stigmas move 

 forward into the former place and become more spreading. If insects 

 do not visit the flower it is seldom self-pollinated, but insect visits are 

 frequent, though the flowers are not large, but strong- or sweet-scented. 

 In bending backwards the anthers may touch the stigmas. The honey 

 lies in the tissue at the base of the ovary, and fills the tube, which 

 is 9-10 mm. long, to a height of 4 mm. Wood Sage is visited by 

 Bombns, Antliopkora, Saropoda, and Er is tails. 



WOOD SAGE (Teucrium Scorodonia, L.) 



When the lower flowers have reached the female condition those 

 above are still male. Thus a bee first visiting male flowers carries 

 the pollen away to a second plant. 



The nutlets, as in other Labiates, are free, and when ripe fall out 

 to the ground. 



Wood Sage is a rock plant growing on rock soil, or a sand-lover 

 and addicted to a sand soil. It is common on granitic, schistose, and 

 slate rocks. 



The leaves are attacked by a fungus Puccinia annularis. 



Beetles have a predilection for \Vood Sage, e.g. Apion rubens, Jlfeli- 

 gethcs bidens, M. obscurus, By rrkiis pilule, Longitarsiis pulex, L. distin- 



