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...Sticky & Warm. The trap of just about all such flowers is a hollow tunnel formed by the flower's blossom that botanists call the caldron. Some varieties of trap flowers are equipped along their rims with countless tiny hairs, which appear to an approaching insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron...
...numerous species of traps use ingenious methods to cover the insects imprisoned in the blossom with the sticky pollen that they carry to the flower's close-at-hand female sex organ as they try to escape. After a night inside the Aaron's-rod flower, mosquitoes find themselves literally snowed under by pollen, while flies caught by the lily-like arms of another trap flower must wade through mounds of pollen to move from one part of the caldron to another. The curved hollow of the purplish-green Dutchman's-pipe is pocked on the inside...
Died. Virgil Blossom, 58, school superintendent of Little Rock, Ark., during the 1957 integration crisis, who won the city's 1955 Man of the Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...
Blessings of grain-stalk and blossom...
...there is something near by the blossom, for example, a bee-a bumblebee-which is yellow and black, that is reflected in the blossom. And if, hanging from the anterior, the front end of the bee, is a drop of honey, that also is reflected in the blossom. Now, reflected in the honey is an eagle, and in the mouth of the eagle is a ferret, and in the mouth of the ferret is a stoat, and in the mouth of the stoat is a shrew, and in the mouth of the shrew is a marble, and on the outside...