96 PIBST STUDIES IN PLANT LIFE 



10. There are a hundred plans ; but the plan we 

 shall look at first is that of the plants that have gay 

 flowers to attract pollen-carriers. We shall see how 

 one of these gay flowers is built up, and how all the 

 parts work to one end — the making of seed. 



Questions. — 



(1) Name some plants that flower without gay colour. 



(2) Name some flowers that attract insects by scent. 



(3) Name some plants or trees that use the wind to carry their 

 pollen. 



(4) Name some flowers that use bees to carry their pollen. 



(5) Can you name any plants (mostly weeds) that seem to have 

 no need of insects nor of the wind ? 



N.B. — The flowers in these cases are generally very small and often green. 



Composition Exercise. — 



Watch carefully the visits of bees or other insects to a flower or 

 bed of flowers, and write an account of what you see. 



Drawing Exercise. — 



Make a drawing of CaJ an ivy flower umbel ; (bj a single ivy- 

 flower. 



XVI.— THE FLOWER.— Part U. 



THE PAETS OF A FLOWER. 



1. The scarlet geranium. The scarlet geranium 

 is to be found in almost every garden from the 

 Murray to the sea, and it is in flower during most 

 months of the year. We shall, therefore, find out 

 how a flower is built up by taking to pieces a scarlet 

 geranium. 



2. The flower-stalk. First of all, we notice the 

 long stout flower-stalk that pushes the flower-cluster 



