Blossom Hosts and Insect Guests: How the Heath Family, the Bluets, the Figworts, the Orchids and Similar Wild Flowers Welcome the Bee, the Fly, the Wasp, the Moth and Other Faithful InsectsNewson, 1901 - 197 стор. |
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adaptation alights Angræcum Anthers mature Arethusa arum barberry beautiful bee Stigma Bees and flies beetles beneath bloom blossom Bluets Bombus Bumblebees butterflies cleistogamous cleistogamous buds clover cluster color COMMON NAME Compositæ corolla cypripedium Darwin disks drooping Family Family-Continued Figures illustrating structure Figures showing Figwort fissure floral flowers perfect fringe gland head Head-piece incoming bee insect's tongue insure Jack-in-the-pulpit lily mature before stigma matures before anthers method of fertilization METHOD OF PREVENT milkweed Moccasin-Flower moth NAME INSECT VISITORS nectary opening orchid Orchis morio ovary petals pink pistil plant pollen masses Pollen-collecting bees Pollen-gathering pollinia Polygala price to teachers Primrose purple Ragged Orchid SCIENTIFIC NAME INSECT secreted seed seen Self-fertilization sepals shown Showy Orchid Small bees special visitor species Sprengel stamens stigma Anthers mature Stigma matures Stigma protrudes Stigmatic flowers sweets Tail-piece Landscape throat tiny tion tube Violet Virgínica viscid wasps Wild WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON Witch-Hazel yellow
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Сторінка x - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Сторінка 11 - Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.
Сторінка 50 - What next? A tuft of evening primroses, O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes; O'er which it well might take a pleasant sleep, But that 'tis ever startled by the leap no Of buds into ripe flowers...
Сторінка 37 - The lime-trees pile their solid stacks o' shade An' drows'ly simmer with the bees' sweet trade ; In ellum-shrouds the flashin' hangbird clings An' for the summer vy'ge his hammock slings; All down the loose-walled lanes in archin' bowers The barb'ry droops its strings o' golden flowers, Whose shrinkin* hearts the school-gals love to try With pins, — they'll worry yourn so, boys, bimeby!
Сторінка 169 - A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.
Сторінка 167 - Nature, while thus preventing the self-fertilization of the flower, equally insures its cross-fertilization, thus affording unanswerable arguments in favor of the pet theories of this great philosopher. There are similar mysteries concealed within the hearts of many of our most common wild flowers, and it is one of the most inspiring fascinations of Nature-study that, while rewarding her devotees with a full measure of her confidence, she still allures them on with an inexhaustible reserve.
Сторінка 19 - ... the meddlesome sunshine here and there Kept pointing a finger right under the trees, — Kept shifting the branches and wagging a hand At the round brown limbs on the border of sand, And seem'd to whisper...