Above the nectaries is a 5-angled crown, the extremity of the receptacle; in each angle a black anther.
Nectaries 5, united throughout their length with the receptacle, their bases curved like the sides of the fleur de lis.
The corydalis tuberosa properly has one of its two nectaries colorless, destitute of nectar, and only one half the size of the other.
Now on my plants there are several flowers (the fertility of which I will observe) with both nectaries equal and purple and secreting nectar; the pistil is straight, and the hood slips off either way.
This would tend to their respective perpetuation, and to the constant lengthening ofnectaries and probosces.
A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectariesvary in length from ten to fourteen inches.
Again, let us suppose the variation of an extra long nectary, and the writer recently saw a number of these orchids with nectaries thirteen inches in length.
Its nectaries are stored with sweets, and I fancy each opening bud keenly alert with conscious solicitude for its affinity.
Its threshold must bear its own peculiar welcome to its insect, or perhaps to its humming-bird friend, or counterpart; its nectaries must both tempt and reward his coming, and its petals assist his comfortable tarrying.
These are the conditions expressed; and how admirably they are fulfilled we may observe when we examine flower after flower of a group, and find their nectaries drained, their anther cells empty, and pollen upon all their stigmas.
In Aconitum, monkshood, the nectariesstand upright like two horns covered with a hood, which abounds with such acrid matter that no insects penetrate it.
By the multiplication of the nectaries and exclusion of the petals; as in columbine.
After impregnation the flower undergoes a remarkable change, the nectaries drop off, but the white corol remains, and gradually becomes quite green.
In Helleborus, hellebore, the many nectaries are placed in a circle, like little pitchers, and add much to the beauty of the flower.
The two upper petals of the common Pelargonium are thus marked near their bases; and I have repeatedly observed that when the flowers vary so as to become peloric or regular, they lose their nectaries and at the same time the dark marks.
They are thus stimulated to work quickly by rivalry, and, what is much more important, they find a large proportion of the flowers, as suggested by my son, with their nectariessucked dry.
The innumerable tribes of moths and butterflies eat nothing but the honey secreted in the nectaries of flowers, which are frequently situated at the bottom of a tube of great length.
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The first of these substances is the pure fluid secreted in the nectaries of flowers, which the length of their tongue enables them to reach in most blossoms.
You have doubtless observed the conspicuous white nectaries of the crown imperial, (Fritillaria imperialis,) and that they secrete abundance of this fluid.
Prior says the flower was given its name because "of the resemblance of the nectaries to the heads of pigeons in a ring around a dish - a favorite device of ancient artists.
On a sunny June day the lens usually reveals at least one tiny gnat making his way from one club-shaped petal to another - for the insignificant petals are mere nectaries - and transferring pollen from flower to flower.
From the number of butterflies seen hovering about this fringeless orchis and its more attractive kin, it is small wonder their nectaries are soon exhausted and they are accused of being gay deceivers.
Guided by the speckles to the nectaries at the base of the flower, they must either cling to the stamens and style while they suck, or fall out.
In the chapter on Feeding, it has already been stated that honey is not a natural secretion of the bee, but a substance obtained from the nectaries of the blossoms; it is not therefore, made, but merely gathered by the bees.
In the case of peloric aconites[234] the lateral and sometimes the inferior coloured sepals assume the hooded form usually peculiar to the upper sepal only, the number of the petals ornectaries being correspondingly increased.
The two nectaries are underneath and at the base of the cowl-shaped upper sepal which gives the plant its name.
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