"Common broom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... visit the flowers of the common Broom, and these are adapted by a curious mechanism for cross-fertilisation. When a bee alights on the wing-petals of a young flower, the keel is slightly opened and the short stamens spring out, which rub their pollen against the abdomen of the bee. If a rather older flower is visited for the first ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin
... grassy green and grey, By furze that yellows all the common way, Gathering the gladness of the common broom, And too ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde |
