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end of its mate. A common hyaline coating covers both the hair cells. 

 These cells do not end at the base of the outgrowth, but one passes up the^ 

 filaments and the other in the opposite direction, meeting other epidermal 

 cells that are not modified into hairs. The origin of these outgrowths i» 

 easy to find. All stages of their development may be seen in any young- 

 filament. At first only a slight elevation is observed at the point where two 



Fig. 13. Plumose bristles, portion of pappus, a single thistle. 



epidermal cells join ends. A little later these ends push out siile by sidft, 

 closely appressed, thus making a papilla. Soon after this the lateral por- 

 tion of each cells equals that which is epidermal. Nearly all the granular 

 contents of both cells are now in the projecting part and the nucleus ie 

 prominent. When fully developed the hairs are 20 to 25 u. broad and 1,000 

 u. long. They are, therefore, the laterally extended tips of adjoining epi- 

 dermal cells and become triggers, which, when touched by the insect's pro- 

 boscis, set the filament in motion and cause the drawing down of the tube 

 of anthers. The style, it has been stated, occupies the space within the 

 tube and has its exterior covered with short stiff hairs which point upward. 

 A brush of long upturned hairs is situated at the base of that portion of 

 the style included within the ring of anthers. The anthers dehisce upon 

 the inner side and the pollen comes in contact with the "spiny" surface of 



