The €VliIkwecd : ^ "Bluebeard "Blossom 



flower, the disks only being exposed at the surface, 

 at five equidistant points around its rim, where 

 they lie in wait fur the first unwary foot that shall 

 touch them. 



A glance at the two views of this central portion 

 of the flower, as it appears through my magnifying- 



glass — the honey-horns and sepals having been 

 removed — will, I think, indicate its peculiar anat- 

 omy or mechanism. No sfigina is to be seen in 

 the flower, the stigmatic surface which is to receive 

 the pollen being concealed within five compart- 

 ments, each of which is protected by a raised, tent- 

 like covering, cleft along its entire apex by a fine 

 fissure (A). 0?Usidc of each of these and entirely 



