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long, apog by a five-parted border less than two inches across, The a 
tube is slender, and around its mouth is a finely-cut fringe of the same — 
upper part, or limb, or border, was about egg-shaped and bent somewhat 
downwards. After expansion, the anthers are seen cohering in a mass, 
nearly opposite the mouth of the tube. The five filaments which a 
thus leaving it open. ‘The filaments are very elastic, or, better perhaps, 
have a strongly contractile tissue on their inner surface, or an expansive Í 
one on the outer. The flower is very sweet-scented, and has honey at i 
the bottom. enee it pa so far away that no insect but such as has ee 
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and the object is plainly to deposit the pollen on the breast of the insect, a 
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the prm is deposit tsa 
now we are i y a difficulty. We do not know if there or 
nie whose stigma projects outside of it. We do know that re as a: 
the tube. re some of the pollen is on his sucker and may thus be . 
rne to the stigma. 
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of our plant there may be others with long styles. If, however, 
is always so short, we may still believe that a portion of the ey tos 
it seems to need but little) is conveyed by the sucker of the mo 

