File:EB1911 Pollination - pollination of Salvia pratensis.jpg

DescriptionEB1911 Pollination - pollination of Salvia pratensis.jpg	English: Pollination of Salvia pratensis (see legend below).
Date	published 1911
Source	“Pollination,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 22, 1911, fig. 9, p. 4.
Author	From Strasburger's Lehrbuch der Botanik.
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1, Flower visited by a humble-bee, showing the projection of the curved connective bearing the anther from the helmet-shaped upper lip and the deposition of the pollen on the back of the humble-bee.

2, Older flower, with connective drawn back, and elongated style.

3, The same, when disturbed by the entrance of the probosces of the bee in the direction of the arrow; f, filament; c, connective; s, the obstructing half of the anther.

4, The staminal apparatus at rest, with connective enclosed within the upper lip.