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will of course increase the chance that any insect with pollen on its 
proboscis or back will not fail to leave some grains attached to it as 
for its completion, or if it be not completed in time, the mechanical 
effect of the backing motion of the insect will be to complete the 
closing. 
A similar use of a quite different movement has been suggested to 
me by Miss S. 8. Dowson, one of my Cambridge corresponding class. 
time the bud is just opened it has lengthened out between the stamens, 
and its tip is adpressed to the upper lip of the corolla. As yet the 
this time are all four close beneath the end of the pistil, and ope 
downwards. The filaments then begin to contract, and nthers, 
which adhere together, are drawn lower; and y the filamen 
twist themselves such a degree that the anthers are dra 
stigma have opened. They will be seen to form a fork over a slight 
rising in the middle lip of the corolla, by which entrance to the 
flower, except exactly under the stigmatic surfaces, 1s prevented, = 
PSEUDOCARPS. 
By W. R. McNas, M.D. - 
: ‘ hich 
I nave taken the liberty of using the word panes ig Re; die. 
Need in ny, and this laxity of expression is the source of man 
difficulties. Such ordinary every-day wo flower, hore: 
: seem chiefly to be taken as meaning something whic 
t, &e. ; 
everybody knows and not needing any accurate definition. A flower 
- DearL 
fruit ; fet: separately. The fruit 1s 
Pr Archania BO, HoNb One ie makany after asda 
The ovary is part of the gyncecium o 
