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‘to insert it into the spur and procure the honey. If the 
flower is young, the stamens and carpels are covered by the 
anterior petals ;-but as the stamens ripen—and they ripen 
before the carpels—they raise themselves, so that their anthers 
lie in the very path of the bee’s proboscis, which must thus 
become dusted with pollen. When the stamens have shed 
their pollen they wither and lie down; the carpels then in 
their turn occupy the space formerly occupied by the stamens, 
and if in this condition the flower is visited by a bee bear- 
ing pollen from another flower, cross- pollination takes place. 
Larkspur is very common in gardens. — 
PAPAVERACEZ. 
Field or Corn Poppy (Papaver Rheas). A herb 
with stiff hairs and milky juice or latex, which 
circulates in definite channels. : 
Leaves : alternate, simple, very much divided. 
Inflorescence : the flowers are single, large, and terminal. 
| — Calyx : sepals 2, free, inferior, and 
3 falling off from the top as soon as 
the flower opens. 
Corolla: petals 4, in two whorls, 
very much crumpled in bud, and 
expanding as soon as the calyx 
drops ; free, hypogynous. 
Andrecium.: stamens numerous, 
in several whorls, which alternate 
with each other. 
Gynecium:  carpels indefinite. 
The ovary is unicellular, but the placente project very far 
into it. The stigmas are sessile, velvety, and stellate. 
Fruit: a porous capsule; the pores are close beneath the 
stigmas at the top of the ovary, so that the fruit seeds only 
when there is a considerable amount of wind, and the seeds 
are thrown to a considerable distance. The valves of the 
fruit alternate with the rays of the stigmas (“Elementary 
Botany,” Fig. 79). 
Type 

Fic¢..60.—FLORAL DIAGRAM 
OF Poppy. 

