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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
200
There
is
another
flower,
called
the
Salvia,
which
belongs
to
the
same
family
as
our
dead-nettle,
and
I
think
you
will
agree
with
me
that
its
way
of
dusting
the
bee's
back
is
most
clever.
The
Salvia
(Fig.
60)
is
shaped
just
like
the
dead-nettle,
with
a
hood
and
a
broad
lip,
but
instead
of
four
stamens
it
has
only
two,
the
other
two
being
shrivelled
up.
The
two
that
are
left
have
a
very
strange
shape,
for
the
stalk
or
filament
of
the
stamen
is
very
short,
while
the
anther,
which
is
in
most
flowers
two
little
bags
stuck
together,
has
here
grown
out
into
a
long
thread,
with
a
little
dust-bag
at
one
end
only.
In
1,
Fig.
60,
you
only
see
one
of
these
stems,
because
the
flower
is
cut
in
half,
but
in
the
whole
flower,
one
stands
on
each
side
just
within
the
lip.
Now,
when
the
bee
puts
her
head
into
the
tube
to
reach
the
honey,
she
passes
right
between
these
two
swinging
anthers,
and
knocking
against
the
end
pushes
it
before
her
and
so
brings
the
dust-bag
plump
down
on
her
back,
scattering
the
dust
there!
you
can
easily
try
this
by
thrusting
a
pencil
into
any
Salvia
flower,
and
you
will
see
the
anther
fall.
You
will
notice
that
all
this
time
the
be
does
not
touch
the
sticky
stigma
which
hangs
high
above
her,
but
after
the
anthers
are
empty
and
shrivelled
the
stalk
of
the
stigma
grows
longer,
and
it
falls
lower
down.
By-and-by
another
bee,
having
pollen
on
her
back,
comes
to
look
for
honey,
and
as
she
goes
into
No.
3,
she
rubs
against
the
stigma
and
leaves
upon
it
the
dust
from
another
flower.
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