The Monkey Flower 



to back into two long mounds, and covered with a 



forest of short, yellow, upstanding hairs. Crimson 



spots are dotted all over it, and are also repeated 



on the side walls. Often there is a large and special 



red spot placed on the entrance platform definitely 



to mark its centre. At the very back of the cavern 



is a glow of green. 



Peering up in the roof we can see five structures, 



one Uke a big open mouth in front and four behind. 



The four are stamen heads, which are in pairs, end 



to end, one pair behind the other. Their long stalks 



are attached to the roof, and run in four parallel lines 



to the back of the cavern. Now it is the remarkable 



mouth-like structure that is the great point of 



interest in this plant, and it is a point about which 



few of those who admire and gather these flowers 



know, for this is a mouth with sensitive lips that 



can open and close just as a real mouth can do. 



Really it is the stigma, the organ in the flower that 



is intended to receive the pollen which will fertiUse 



the seeds in the seed-case, and in most of our English 



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