Introduction. 



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brown and sometimes it is white. If you 

 shake a golden-rod in the fall, a cloud of 

 yellow golden-rod dust will fly out.|^This 

 dust is called pollen. 



Nearly all flowers havej 

 it. It grows in little box- 

 es called anthers; and] 

 when the anthers are ripely 

 they burst open and 

 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. 

 ''^i^^Jn the centre of the flower is another part 

 d; looks a little like an anther ; its stem is 

 longXand it is marked stigma in the picture. 

 This stVigma is not filled with pollen. It 

 is just a sr^icky knob. 



