8G 



A NATUnAlTST'S WANDEIilNOS 



tains any nectar* Tho eolumn, embraced by tbe kbellum, is 

 massive, expanding into a stigma eleven millimetreB broad, 

 secreting an ftbundance of viscid matter, crowned with the 

 iinther and its pi>l]en, whose cantHcles, composed of pollen 



na. 1,— phajx"s blumei, »Ht>wmo ak- 



THEE WITH POUlxrA EEMOTED ; 

 G, BTIGHA : F, BA££ OF ASTHEE ; 



IThe folhin'nri %Mm are all tUghUy 



PIG, 2.— rnAJTS m.rMET» stiowtng the 



I'OLLTSiA AVALASCHKT> DOWJT- 

 WAnDS, CARBTISG WITH THEM THE 

 BOSTELLtTM, G ; A, AKTHXR-CAf ; B, 

 BWOLI^ESr POWSXA ; 0, STtGXA : 

 E, TIP OP CAUEICLES Of POLLLMA. 



grains, protrude their tips from beneath the anther-cap, I exa- 

 mined more than one hundred and fifty flowere of P. Blumd, 

 but t did not find one that was not, or conld be otherwise than, 

 eelf-fertilisecl. Its essential organs exist in two forms, slightly 

 but interestingly different. 



na, 3.— Bo> ot tntAJtrs blumet, sbovt- 

 ISO I'd. LI XI A IN ERECT roffrnoji ; 



A, ASTIIER-CAP \ B. TOl-LINIA : C, 



enoMA.; d, medlax rcdoe, 



no. 4,— mxGmnptKAI* SECTTOIf OF 

 COLCIIS OF PHAJrS BLTTMEl (StDE 



view); A, b, c, i\ as is fiq. 3; 



I;, BOUKDABT OF STIGMA, 



Flowers of the first form have, arching over the deep and 

 covered stigma, a well-tleveloped tongne-shaped projection or 

 rostellum, on which lie the candieles of the polJinia, which 

 have no viscid disk (Fig. 1). On each side, the rost^dbiin 

 leaves between itself and the external walls of the column a 



