Word: tubular
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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Birds, insects and snails, he continued, do not work gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends...
...power to light the library without the fear of fire, thus granting an inestimable boon to the many hard working students who can only visit it during the day time. After having gone through the subject in its details, I will now present it in a tubular form, so that the situation may easily be grasped by everyone...