The Blazing-Star 



AND 



Other Lilies 



We have seen how in some 

 flowers self-fertiHzation is pre- 

 vented by the stigmas and an- ^ 

 thers maturing at different pe- 

 riods, as in the tigwort and arum ; 

 in others, as in the iris, millvweed, 

 and many compositae, by mere 

 mechanical means, and in the bluets by the ^ 

 production of two forms of flowers. 



A pretty illustration of the method which 

 places the stigmatic flowers in dift'erent blossoms 

 from the pollen-producing stamens (the method 

 which J ack-in-t he-pulpit is endeavoring to per- 

 fect) is to be seen in the little wild flower known 

 as the devil's-bit, Chamcclirium httciun, a true lily. 

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