Flowers, Fruits and LeavesMacmillan, 1886 - 147 páginas |
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... stigma has come to maturity . Thirdly , there are many species in which , though the anthers and stigma are contained in the same flower and are mature at the same time , they are so situated that the pollen can hardly reach the stigma ...
... stigma has come to maturity . Thirdly , there are many species in which , though the anthers and stigma are contained in the same flower and are mature at the same time , they are so situated that the pollen can hardly reach the stigma ...
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... stigma are much greater in the one case than in the other . Again , it is an advantage to wind - fertilised plants to flower early in the spring before the leaves are out , because the latter would catch much of the pollen . and thus ...
... stigma are much greater in the one case than in the other . Again , it is an advantage to wind - fertilised plants to flower early in the spring before the leaves are out , because the latter would catch much of the pollen . and thus ...
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... stigma more or less branched or hairy , which evidently must tend to increase their chances of catching the pollen . Moreover , as Mr. Darwin has observed , there does not appear to be a single instance of an irregular flower which is ...
... stigma more or less branched or hairy , which evidently must tend to increase their chances of catching the pollen . Moreover , as Mr. Darwin has observed , there does not appear to be a single instance of an irregular flower which is ...
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... stigmas of Malva sylvestris . FIG . 10. Ditto of Malva rotundifolia . branches of the stigma are elongated , and twine them- selves ( Fig . 10 ) among the stamens , so that the flower readily fertilises itself . Another interesting case ...
... stigmas of Malva sylvestris . FIG . 10. Ditto of Malva rotundifolia . branches of the stigma are elongated , and twine them- selves ( Fig . 10 ) among the stamens , so that the flower readily fertilises itself . Another interesting case ...
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... stigma , but the in- terval is shorter , and the stigma is mature before all the anthers have shed their pollen . It is there- fore not absolutely dependent on insects . In G. molle , which has a still smaller flower , five of the ...
... stigma , but the in- terval is shorter , and the stigma is mature before all the anthers have shed their pollen . It is there- fore not absolutely dependent on insects . In G. molle , which has a still smaller flower , five of the ...
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Página 98 - But the leaves of the herbage at our feet take all kinds of strange shapes, as if to invite us to examine them. Starshaped, heart-shaped, spear-shaped, arrow-shaped, fretted, fringed, cleft, furrowed, serrated, sinuated; in whorls, in tufts, in spires, in wreaths endlessly expressive, deceptive, fantastic, never the same from footstalk to blossom ; they seem perpetually to tempt our watchfulness, and take delight in outstripping our wonder.
Página 117 - Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert.
Página 97 - Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity : children love them ; quiet, tender, contented ordinary people love them as they grow; luxurious and disorderly people rejoice in them gathered : They are the cottager's treasure ; and in the crowded town, mark, as with a little...
Página 98 - Now. why is this marvellous variety, this inexhaustible treasury of beautiful forms ? Does it result from some innate tendency of each species? Is it intentionally designed to delight the eye of man ? Or has the form and size and texture some reference to the structure and organization, the habits and requirements, of the whole plant...
Página 3 - ... unknown until Mr. Darwin devoted himself to the subject. Our illustrious countryman was the first clearly to perceive that the essential service which insects perform to flowers, consists not only in transferring the pollen from the stamens to the pistil, but in transferring it from the stamens of one flower to the pistil of another. Sprengel had indeed observed in more than one instance that this was the case, but he did not altogether appreciate the importance of the fact. Mr. Darwin, however,...