The Mysteries of the Flowers
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If this be the correct solution of the matter, we here have a very curious mechanism to accomplish self- fertilisation.
In the Campanulas and Gentians the relative po- sitions of stamens and stigmas favour cross-fertili- sation, but in case the customary visitor fails to ar- rive with the desired cargo of pollen the stigmas will split downward more and, curving outward, come into contact with the anthers, or with pollen collected in the corolla.
178 MYSTERIES OF THE FLOWERS ROUND-LEAVED MALLOW ...Malva rotundifolia This attracts few insects by its small pale flowers, and consequently is able to fertilise its own stigmas in the following curious way.
In the centre of the flower rises a stalk, close about which grow nu- merous anthers. Above them springs a cluster of styles, each bearing a stigma. If an insect fertilises these advancing stigmas, nothing more is required. But, this failing, the styles curl downward like the ten- tacle of a minute octopus, curve and twist around the stamen-cluster, absorb pollen from them, and are fertilised.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If this be the correct solution of the matter, we here have a very curious mechanism to accomplish self- fertilisation.
In the Campanulas and Gentians the relative po- sitions of stamens and stigmas favour cross-fertili- sation, but in case the customary visitor fails to ar- rive with the desired cargo of pollen the stigmas will split downward more and, curving outward, come into contact with the anthers, or with pollen collected in the corolla.
178 MYSTERIES OF THE FLOWERS ROUND-LEAVED MALLOW ...Malva rotundifolia This attracts few insects by its small pale flowers, and consequently is able to fertilise its own stigmas in the following curious way.
In the centre of the flower rises a stalk, close about which grow nu- merous anthers. Above them springs a cluster of styles, each bearing a stigma. If an insect fertilises these advancing stigmas, nothing more is required. But, this failing, the styles curl downward like the ten- tacle of a minute octopus, curve and twist around the stamen-cluster, absorb pollen from them, and are fertilised.
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