

2 A CHAPTER TO STUDY. 
berries that he has enjoyed. If Master Bee follows the road that 
is plainly marked out for him by a deep, rich veining and sips 
to satiety of a gland of nectar ; it is but fair that the anthers 
should load him well with a cargo of pollen to carry off to the 
pistil of another flower. In fact, as we become more friendly 
with the flowers we will cease to look upon them so much as 
luxurious creatures but rather as those that have solved the 
deep problems of domestic economy. 
The plant’s individual mission in life is the reproduction of 
itself. 
The flower and its products, the fruit and the seeds, are the 
organs of reproduction. 
The root, the stem and the leaves are the organs of vegeta- 
tion, 
The Inflorescence is the manner in which the flowers are 
arranged upon the stem. 
When but one flower grows upon the end of the stem or 
flower-stalk, it is said to be TERMINAL, SOLITARY, 
It is Axillary when the flower, or flowers, grow from the 
axils of the leaves, or in the angle formed by the leaf, or leaf- 
stalk, and the stem. (Fic. 1.) 

FIG. I. FIG. 2. FIG. 3. 
A Pedicel is the individual stalk of a flower borne in a clus- 
Ser. 
A Peduncle is the stalk of a solitary flower, or the general 
stalk that bears a cluster. 

