lo WIND-FERTILISED FLOWERS. [chap. 



Even in nearly allied plants this difference is well 

 marked, in illustration of which Axell gives the 

 following figures taken from Maout and Decaisne's 

 "Traits g^nerale de Botanique": — Fig. 7 represents 

 a section of a flower of Plantago major, which is 

 wind-fertilised ; Fig. 8 of an allied species, Plumbago 



Fic;. 7. 



Fig. 7. — Section of Plantago major Fig. 8. — Of Plumbago Europea. Fig. g. — 

 Flower of Poterium sanguisorba Fit;. lO.— Of Sanguisorba ofRcinalis. 



Europea, which is insect-fertilised. Again, Fig. 9 re- 

 presents a section of Poterium sanguisorba, which is 

 wind-fertilised ; Fig. 10 of the nearly allied Sangui- 

 sorba officinalis, which is fertilised by insects. 



