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 1894

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 1803

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 St. George Mivart

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 Arabella B. Buckley 1884

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 John Harvey Kellogg 1897

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. 1877

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.

Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire 2011

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

When Apricot Met Plum... Melanie Grayce West 2011

Simply a desperate attempt to harm anthers reputation.

Fey likely to revive Palin impersonation 2010

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 power of spring flowers 2011