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NATURE STUDY 



the spur, and secrete the honey. In getting at this, the 

 bee thrusts the anthers apart. These, thereupon, deposit 

 on him some of their pollen. This cannot be left on the 

 pistil, because of the liiJ (which will be evident to any one 

 who examines it carefully), but it is left in the stigmatic 

 cavity of the next flower to which it goes. 



Uiikijrsgnil llii«e( 



Common Blue Violet. 



Strange to say, the greater portion of the good seed of 

 the violet is not produced in the flowers thus elaborately 

 cross-fertilized, but in underground flowers, which look 

 like small green bud.s, and which never open. 



