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Tall Bearded Iris 



almost sure to be 

 scraped off by the 

 overhanging lip and 

 deposited on its up- 

 per (the stigmatic) 

 surface. This pro- 

 cess of pollination is 

 well shown by Fig. 

 XL. Notice on the 

 right how the bee 

 in backing out, after 

 having become 

 dusted with pollen, 

 presses up the lip 

 and prevents its 

 stigmatic surface 

 from receiving any 



(Sectional View)* „r .x^ ii j 



' oi the pollen; and 



notice on the left how the upper surface of the 

 lip scrapes the pollen off the bee's back as the bee 

 crawls into another flower. In Fig. XL the bee is 

 represented — to save another illustration — as entering 

 the same flower the second time, but it rarely does 

 this immediately after its first entrance. 



Fig. XL. — Wild Iris 



* * * When the summer shines 

 The bee transports the fertilizing meal 

 From flower to flower. 



Cowper: The Task. 



*From "Mysteries of the Flowers", by Herbert W. Faulkner. 

 Copyright, 1917, by Frederick A. Stokes' Company. 



