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My Studio Neighbors
·
W. Hamilton Gibson
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From
this
companionable
point
of
view
let
us
now
look
again
at
the
strange
curved
stamen
of
the
sage.
Why
this
peculiar
formation
of
the
long
curved
arm
pivoted
on
its
stalk?
Considered
in
the
abstract,
it
can
have
no
possible
meaning;
but
taken
in
association
with
the
insect
to
which
it
is
shaped,
how
perfect
is
its
adaptation,
how
instantly
intelligible
it
becomes!
Every
one
is
familiar
with
the
sage
of
the
country
garden,
its
lavender
flowers
arranged
in
whorls
in
a
long
cluster
at
the
tips
of
the
stems.
One
of
these
flowers,
a
young
one
from
the
top
of
the
cluster,
is
shown
at
A
(Fig.
4),
in
section,
the
long
thread-like
pistil
starting
from
the
ovary,
and
curving
upward
beneath
the
arch
of
the
flower,
with
its
forked
stigma
barely
protruding
(B).
There
are
two
of
the
queer
stamens,
one
on
each
side
of
the
opening
of
the
blossom,
and
situated
as
shown,
their
anthers
concealed
in
the
hood
above,
and
only
their
lower
extremity
appears
below,
the
minute
growth
near
it
being
one
of
the
rudiments
of
two
former
stamens
which
have
become
aborted.
If
we
take
a
flower
from
the
lower
portion
of
the
cluster
(D),
we
find
that
the
thread-like
pistil
has
been
elongated
nearly
a
third
of
an
inch,
its
forked
stigma
now
hanging
directly
at
the
threshold
of
the
flower.
The
object
of
this
will
be
clearly
demonstrated
if
we
closely
observe
this
bee
upon
the
blossoms.
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