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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
147
Now
for
the
use
of
these
yellow
bags,
which
are
called
the
anthers
of
the
stamens,
the
stalk
on
which
they
grow
being
called
the
filament
or
thread.
If
you
can
manage
to
split
them
open
you
will
find
that
they
have
a
yellow
powder
in
them,
called
pollen,
the
same
as
the
powder
which
sticks
to
your
nose
when
you
put
it
into
a
lily;
and
if
you
look
with
a
magnifying
glass
at
the
little
green
knob
in
the
centre
of
the
flower,
you
will
probably
see
some
of
this
yellow
dust
sticking
on
it
(A,
Fig.
43).
We
will
leave
it
there
for
a
time,
and
examine
the
body
called
the
pistil,
to
which
the
knob
belongs.
Pull
off
the
yellow
corolla
(which
will
come
off
quite
easily),
and
turn
back
the
green
leaves.
You
will
then
see
that
the
knob
stands
on
the
top
of
a
column,
and
at
the
bottom
of
this
column
there
is
a
round
ball
(s
v),
which
is
a
vessel
for
holding
the
seeds.
In
this
diagram
(A,
Fig.
43)
I
have
drawn
the
whole
of
this
curious
ball
and
column
as
if
cut
in
half,
so
that
we
may
see
what
is
in
it.
In
the
middle
of
the
ball,
in
a
cluster,
there
are
a
number
of
round
transparent
little
bodies,
looking
something
like
round
green
orange-cells
full
of
juice.
They
are
really
cells
full
of
protoplasm,
with
one
little
dark
spot
in
each
of
them,
which
by-and-by
is
to
make
our
little
plantlet
that
we
found
in
the
seed.
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