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EYE SPY 



being conveyed away upon the bodies of insects 

 and carried to a second flower, and there placed 

 upon the stigma to insure fertilization and devel- 

 opment of the seed. 



The plans, devices, tricks, and pranks by which 

 flowers accomplish this result are past belief. I 

 have indicated only a few by way of a hint, and in 

 previous papers on the bluebottle and figwort 

 have described others, but none quite similar to 

 the barberry. 



We all know the barberry, the prickly, thorny 



