The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination

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Gentianopsis crinita syn. Gentiana crinita Identifier: flowerbeeplant00love (find matches)
Title: The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Lovell, John Harvey, 1860-1939
Subjects: Fertilization of plants
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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cinalis),belladonna (Atropa belladonna), the bearberry (ArctostaphylosUva-ursi), the wood-betony (Pedicidaris sylvatica), gill-over-the-ground (Glechoma hederacea), and largely butter-and-eggs(Linaria vidgaris) are bumblebee-flowers. The scarlet sage(Salvia pratensis), with its walking-beam mechanism for placingthe pollen on a bees back, the dragons-head (Dracocephalum,3 species), Molucca balm (Moluccella Icevis), bugle (A jug a rep-tans), and several orchids, as the showy orchis (Orchis spec-tahilis), the pink flowers of Pogonia ophioglossoides common inbogs, and Calypso borealis are aU pollinated by bumblebees.The pretty flowers of the purple Gerardia (Gerardia purpurea)are abundant in autumn, but they contain little nectar and fewbumblebees visit them. Finally there may be added to thelist Cerinthe alpina, Scopolia atropoides, and black henbane(Hyoscyamus niger). No matter how bizarre or grotesque a bumblebee-flower maybe to-day, it is derived from a primitive form that was per- 84
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Fig. 43. Fringed Gentian. Gentiana crinita A bumblebee-flower

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