THE FLOWERING PLANT. 



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you about the anther, or powder-box, bursting, and the 

 flour, or pollen, coming out ; well, some of this flour 

 falls upon the little tuft of hairs at the top of the egg- 



Fig. 56. 



Two Coats. 



Kernel, or Nucleus. 



The Little Egg, or Ovule, and all its Parts. 



pouch, but very often bees and other insects get some 

 of it on their legs and backs, and, as they fly from 

 flower to flower, it thus reaches the hairy knob, or 

 stigma. J ust at this time the stigma is covered by a 

 sugary fluid, and is very sticky, so the flour cannot roll 

 off ; the tuft of hairs also helps to catch and hold it. 

 This dust, or pollen, loves sugar, and so we find it 

 " sitting on the style " making itself quite at home, and 

 drinking all the syrup that comes in its way. It takes 

 in so much, that its great-coat bursts, and then it grows 



