 | 1810 - 578 pages
...There can be MO doubt, ' (says the worthy Doctor, in a tone rather more dogmatical than usual), ' that the sole use of the honey with respect to the plant,...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms. ' — ' Besides the above purposes, I have alwaji conceived the corolla to fulfil soTne important... | |
 | James Edward Smith - Botany - 1809 - 598 pages
...recollecting that it is often lodged in spurs or cells quite out of their reach. There can be no doubt that the sole use of the honey with respect to the plant...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms. * 3. STAMINA. The Stamens, formerly called Chives, are various in number in different flowers,... | |
 | 1810 - 500 pages
...objected to; but our author, with rather too much confidence, states, that ' There can be no doubt, that the sole use of the honey, with respect to the plant,...carry that subStance from the barren to the fertile blossoms.' p. 273. We would only observe, that many flowers, the pollen of vrhich, from the position... | |
 | Mary Jackson Henry - Plant physiology - 1811 - 288 pages
...branches, as Dr. Smith, who asserts that there can be no doubt that the sole use of the nectareous juice, with respect to the plant, is to tempt insects, who,...the flower by disturbing the dust of the stamens*. A point so important as the continuation of the vegetable species being left to the accidental coincidence... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 390 pages
...• See page 153. — The same author says, " There can be no doubt, — ! ! no doubt ! ! — " that the sole use of the honey with respect to the plant,...by disturbing the dust of the " stamens, and even cany that substance from the barren to the fertile bloS" soms." Introduction, &c. page 270. several... | |
 | John Locke - Botany - 1819 - 226 pages
...tube contains, and probably secretes the honey. General observation. I . There can be no doubt that the sole use of the honey with respect to the plant...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms.— Smilh. 2. In discriminating the genera, the nectary often furnishes the essential character.... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...of the luxurious banquet, again set up their tuneful paeans. Honey is of no other use to plants than to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms. Observe what a quantity of this yellow material is collected on the legs and thighs of the... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...of the luxurious banquet, again set up their tunefil paeans. Honey is of no other use to plants than to tempt insects, who, in procuring it. fertilize the flower by disturbing th: dust of the stamens, and even carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms. Observe... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 372 pages
...of the luxurious banquet, again set up their tuneful paeans. Honey is of no other use to plants than to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms. Observe what a quantity of this yellow material is collected on the legs and thighs of the... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 370 pages
...pasans. Honey is of no other use to plants than to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize'the flower by disturbing the dust of the stamens, and...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms. Observe what a quantity of this yellow material is collected on the legs and thighs of the... | |
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Domine," of our singers; and, after partaking silently of the luxurious banquet, again set up their tuneful paeans. Honey is of no other use to plants than to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize the flower by disturbing the dust of the stamens,... 
