anthers

• “In the centre of the anthers is a shining point of warm sea-green, a last, consummate touch which makes the beauty of the blos -”

  An Island Garden

• “The former of these are secreted by the anthers from the vegetable blood, and the latter by the styles or pericarp; see the Additional”

  Canto II

• “The lower cell of each of the two fertile anthers, which is much reduced and different from the superior even in _Salvia officinalis_, is transmuted in other _salviæ_ into an organ (nectarotheca) having a very different form and function, and finally disappears entirely in _Salvia verticillata_.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “Now for the use of these yellow bags, which are called the anthers of the stamens, the stalk on which they grow being called the filament or thread.”

  The Fairy-Land of Science

• “He tells us that "the flower forms the theater of their amours; the calyx is to be considered as the nuptial bed; the corolla constitutes the curtains; the anthers are the testes; the pollen, the fecundating fluid; the stigma of the pistil, the external genital aperture; the style, the vagina, or the conductor of the prolific seed; the ovary of the plant, the womb; the reciprocal action of the stamens on the pistil, the accessory process of fecundation.”

  Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.

• “In our woods and forests, spring begins more quietly – the blades of snowdrops pushing through frozen ground in late January, followed by the star-shaped wood anemones, the dog violets, celandines and primroses, before the bluebells arrive in April, a haze of sky-coloured petals, yellow anthers and clear honey scent.”

  The Guardian: The power of spring flowers

• “The petals are a jaundiced yellow, netted with purple veins that coalesce in the violet throat where a flaccid bunch of anthers and a longer style rest.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire

• “For peach and nectarine "mother" plants, workers remove the petals and pollen-producing anthers of every flower, leaving only the pistil.”

  The Wall Street Journal: When Apricot Met Plum...

• “Simply a desperate attempt to harm anthers reputation.”

  Fey likely to revive Palin impersonation

• “ She removed the yellow anthers to avoid staining the petals.”

  Fictionaut: Beautiful Are the Feet: Part One

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