Wild Flowers as They Grow 



upright position to a horizontal one so that, as the 



inner side of the creamy petals is quite white, the 



now wide-open mouth of the trumpet-shaped flower 



becomes at once conspicuous in the deepening 



twilight. Out of it project five long stamens with 



see-sawing pollen boxes on their ends, and also a 



very long column from the little ovary right away 



beyond the bottom of the petal tube, but while the 



stamens are fixed like bayonets, this column droops 



for the time being. Honey pours into the tube from 



glands on the walls, and wells up until it may 



be half full ; meanwhile the flower puts forth its 



utmost power of scent. This, then, is the position 



of affairs this first night of its life. 



Now the visitors it specially caters for are the 



hawk-moths, especially the Privet and Convolvulus 



Hawk-moths, for they have very long probosces 



which can dive to the bottom of its very long 



tube. And these insects themselves are particularly 



attracted by tlie Honeysuckle. Kemer gives an 



interesting ghmpse into their ways. He describes 



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