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MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS 



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 of Column. 



barren 



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otied line ind 

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of the previous single anther with its two pollen- 

 cells. The pollen is also quite different in its 

 character, being here in the form of a pasty mass, 

 whose entire exposed surface, as the anther opens, 

 is coated with a very viscid gluten. 



With the several figures illustratino- the cross- 



fertilization, the 

 reader will read- 

 ily anticipate any 

 description of the 

 process, and only 

 a brief commen- 

 tary will be re- 

 quired in my 

 text. 



I have repeat- 

 edly examined 

 the flowers of C. 

 acaulc in their 

 haunts, have ob- 

 served groups 

 wherein every flower still retained its pollen, oth- 

 ers where one or both pollen masses had been 

 withdrawn, and in several instances associated 

 with them I have observed the inflated lip most 

 outrageously bruised, torn, and battered, and occa- 

 sionally perforated by a large hole. I had ob- 



stigma. 

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 beneaffi) 



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