IQ2 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



rollaof D. Diervilla hasbeen'so highly coloured simply to please 

 our artistic sense. It is to inform Master Bee that they are a 

 rich family worthy of his attention, and that they have a gland 

 full of nectar awaiting him. Of course, in inviting him thus 

 cordially to their feast, he is supposed to return the civility by 

 leaving for them a little package of pollen at a friend's house 

 on his way home. But Master Bee, like the rest of us, has his 

 moods, and when he is feeling very wicked he just pierces the 

 gland from the outside with his sharp little bill, and calmly sips 

 away without so much as a " thank you " in return. 



TWIN-FLOWER. (Plate CI.) 

 Linncea borealis. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Honeysuckle. Rose. Fragrant, like almonds. Mostly north. June. 



Flowers: terminal in pairs; nodding; borne on individual thread-like flower- 

 stalks that terminate in a common peduncle. Calyx: small; five-toothed. 

 Corolla: bell-shaped, with five rounded lobes; hairy within. Stamens: four ; 

 two longer than the others. Pistil: one; protruding. Leaves: opposite; on 

 petioles ; round ; shining, evergreen ; rising from the stem. Stem : trailing ; 

 decumbent. 



The serene sweetness of these little twin blossoms has at- 

 tracted to them many lovers. Linnaeus, with his abundant 

 knowledge of the flowers, loved them better than any other and 

 Gronovius bestowed upon them his family name. It would 

 seem as though they exhaled the helpful love of a brother and 

 sister which blooms with refreshed vigour every springtime. 



The following tale is told of Linnaeus in connection with his 

 fondness for them. 



A friend gathering a small flower on the shore of a Swedish 

 lake asked the great botanist if it were L. borealis. 



" Nay," said the philosopher, "she lives not here, but in the 

 middle of our largest 'woods. She clings with her little arms 

 to the moss, and seems to resist very gently if you force her 

 from it. She has a complexion like the milk-maid ; and oh ! 

 she is very, very sweet and agreeable." 



