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On Flowers and Insects. 



unavoidable. In most cases, however, the stamens 

 ripen before the stigmas. 



The position of the honey on the surface of a 

 more or less flat disk renders it much more acces- 

 sible than in those cases in which it is situated at 

 the end of a more or less long tube. That of the 



Fig. 42. WILD CHERVIL (Chczrophyllum sylvestris). 



Deadnettle, for instance, is only accessible to certain 

 humble bees ; while H. Muller has recorded no less 

 than 73 species of insects as visiting the common 

 Chervil, and some plants are frequented by even a 

 larger number. 



7. In the Composites, to which the common Daisy 

 and the Dandelion belong, the association of flowers 



