 | Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 pages
...not yet been fully explained. The nectary contains or secretes honey ; and 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. A stamen commonly consists of two parts, the Filament and Anther, the former being merely... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...not yet been fully explained. The nectary contains or secretes honey ; and 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. A stamen commonly consists of two parts, the Filament and Anther, the former being merely... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Botany - 1832 - 272 pages
...o, Fig. 118. In respect to the use of the nectary, Dr. Smith says 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." Situation of the Stamens and Pistils. We have described and illustrated only the most ordinary... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1832 - 440 pages
...of instances, how the corolla attracts insects." " There can he no doubt that the use of the honey is to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize...flower, by disturbing the dust of the stamens, and even carrying it from the harren to the fertile blossoms."— Smith, 239, 270. M. VAUCHER thinks the honey... | |
 | William Paul Crillon Barton, Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1836 - 416 pages
...whose spiral-coated * The same author says, " There can be no doubt" — ! ! no doubt ! ! — " that the sole use of the honey with respect to the plant,...to tempt insects, who in procuring it fertilize the flowers, by disturbing the dust of the stamens, and even carry that substance from the barren to the... | |
 | William Paul Crillon Barton, Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1836 - 414 pages
...whose spiral-coated * The same author says, " There can be no doubt" — ! ! no doubt ! !— " that the sole use of the honey with respect to the plant,...to tempt insects, who in procuring it fertilize the flowers, by disturbing the dust of the stamens, and even carry that substance from the barren to the... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1833 - 594 pages
...of instances, how the corolla attracts insects.' ' There can be no doubt that the use of the honey is to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize...by disturbing the dust of the stamens — and even carrying it from the barren to the fertile blossoms/ Smith, 239, 270. M. VAUCHER thinks the honey facilitates... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1839 - 416 pages
...of instances, bow the corolla attracts insects." " There can be no doubt that the use of the honey is to tempt insects, who, in procuring it, fertilize...flower, by disturbing the dust of the stamens, and even carrying it from the barren to the fertile blossoms."— Smith, 239, 270. M. VAUCHUR thinks the honey... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...interspersed amon¿ the stamens. In respict to its use, Dr. Snell says, ill re can be notloubt that the sole use of the honey, with respect to the plant, ' is to tempt insects. ' — Illustrated Botany. 266 217 Elihu Barritt, the beamed Blacksmith. This extraordinary man arrived... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Botany - 1848 - 510 pages
...120. In respect to the use of the nectary, Dr. Smith says " there can be no doubt that the sole use of honey, with respect to the plant, is to tempt insects,...carry that substance from the barren to the fertile blossoms." STAMENS AND PISTILS. SITUATION OF THE STAMENS AND PISTILS. We have described and illustrated... | |
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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,... 
