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some think the nectary was added to tempt bees 

 to distribute the pollen. 



E. Yes ; but where they are both on the 

 same plant the wind alone can often do it, even 

 if no other contrivance in the flowers was dis- 

 covered. In the class are included a great va- 

 riety of the forest trees. The stately and ma- 

 jestic oak that shoots out its right angled 

 branches, and with its spreading foliage gives an 

 air of grandeur to the landscape, is here, with 

 its neighbours the Beech and goodly Chesnut. 

 The Birch that will endure almost any degree 

 of cold, creeping up even beyond the pines in 

 the polar regions, though it can there attain but 

 the height of a few inches, and growing where 

 little else can grow in the English marshes, 

 Irish bogs, and Scottish peat mosses. This ( 

 beautiful and elegant tree, despite its rather 

 humble growth, has been made the emblem oi 

 the Highland Clan Buchanan. 



L. Has this class any orders ? 



E. Yes ; determined by the number of sta- 

 mens. As might be expected, many of these 

 that are common in Scotland, emblemize the 

 Highland Clans there, thus, the Pine is the 

 badge of the McGregor ; the Box of the Mackin- 



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