Introduction. II 
brown and sometimes it is white. If you 
shake a golden-rod in the fall, a cloud of 
dust is called pollen. 
Nearly all flowers havea 7/7,\ 
it. It grows in little box-(\ EZ 
es called anthers; and| A 
when the anthers are ripe, Zi \\ 
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pollen. 
You know how the anthers in a lily look. 
They swing on the ends of the six long 
slender stems that stick out of the lily flower. 
Nearly all flowers have anthers, but some 
do not have stems to the anthers. Some- 
times the anthers grow right against the 
inside of the flower, but wherever they may 
be they always contain pollen. 
