 | Linnean Society of London - Botany - 1864 - 596 pages
...Hymenopters are early risers, one can see in every flower how fecundation is performed. The humble-bee, in forcing its way out of its involuntary bath, has...face of the column fit together exactly, and are very stifl' and elastic. The first bee, then, which is immersed will have the gland of the pollen-mass glued... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1877 - 482 pages
...Hymenopterse are early risers, one can see in every flower how fecundation is performed. The humble-bee, in forcing its way out of its involuntary bath, has...exert itself considerably, as the mouth of the epichil (ie the distal part of the labellum) and the face of the column fit together exactly, and are very... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Fertilization of plants - 1877 - 356 pages
...Hymenopterae are early risers, one can see in every flower how fecundation is performed. The humble-bee, in forcing its way out of its involuntary bath, has...exert itself considerably, as the mouth of the epichil (ie the distal part of the labellum) and the face of the column fit together exactly, and are very... | |
 | James Veitch & Sons - Orchids - 1893 - 802 pages
...Hymenopters are early risers, one can see on every flower how fecundation is performed. The humble-bee in forcing its way out of its involuntary bath has to exert itself considerably, as the mouth of the epichile and the face of the column fit together exactly, and are very stiff and elastic. The first... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Fertilization of plants - 1889 - 338 pages
...considerably, as the mouth of the epichil (ie the distal part of the labellum) and the face of the column tit together exactly, and are very stiff and elastic....first bee, then, which is immersed will have the gland * 'Journal of Linn. Son. Hot.' drawing of C.feildingii in 'Jourvol. viii. 18ii4. p. 130. There is nal... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Fertilisation of plants - 1904 - 328 pages
...Hymenopterae are early risers, one can see in every flower how fecundation is performed. The humble-bee, in forcing its way out of its involuntary bath, has...to exert itself considerably, as the mouth of the cpichil (ie the distal part of the labellum) and the face of the column fit together exactly, and are... | |
 | Missouri Botanical Garden - Botany - 1915 - 250 pages
...hymenopters are early risers, one can see on every flower how pollination is performed. The humble-bee in forcing its way out of its involuntary bath has to exert itself considerably as the mouth of the epichile and the face of the column fit together exactly and are very stiff and elastic. The first... | |
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... They then crawl along in the water towards the anterior side of the bucket, where there is a passage for them between the opening of this and the column. If one is early on the look-out, as these Hymenopterae are early risers, one can see in every... 