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honey, pushes them a little apart, thus opening the , |,,||| 

 anther-box and letting down a little shower of pollen, '"'"" 

 which is prevented from spreading by the fringe of 



Fig. z.oZ.—Pedicularis sylyatica. 



hairs on the lower edge of the anther, and thus falls 

 on to the he^d of the bee, at the very spot which a 

 moment before had touched the stigma, and which 

 will again touch that of the next flower she visits. 



