POLLEN, OR FLOWER-DUST 85 



animals, though the male and female individuals 

 are not necessarily separate plants or even 

 separate blossoms. Indeed, the greater number 

 of flowers consist of both male and female indi- 



Fig. 53. The central portion of a male begonia flower 

 (slightly magnified) 



viduals in one bloom. Sometimes, however, the 

 male and female flowers are separate ; and our 

 illustrations, Figs. 53 and 54, show the. central 

 and essential organs of the two sexes of flowers of 

 a cultivated begonia, slightly magnified. Fig. 53 

 represents a male flower and reveals a cluster 

 of golden-stalked objects with swollen globular 



