These boxes, which are called _anthers_, open by a slit along one side, and the bee puts her funny little feet into the slits and scrapes out the pollen, which she moistens with honey and packs into baskets on her hindermost legs, or fastens to the hairs on the under side of her body. Then she goes home and packs her load away in the hive for future use. You see it is not much trouble to make beebread—that is, if you know how. It does not have to be raised or baked, yet I doubt if you or I would be able to make it so that a bee would consider it fit to eat. [Illustration: Anther. Filament. The Stamen.] These anthers are held up on long white stalks which grow to the inside of the flower cup, and which are named _filaments_. Since there are five anthers there are five filaments. We call the whole thing, anther and filament, a _stamen_. But this is not all there is to be found in a morning-glory flower. There is something else, and if it were not for this something else we should not have the fun of learning about honey and stamens, because there would be none! Both honey and stamens exist because of this something else. It is in the very center of the flower, and the stamens stand about it in a circle. It stands up like a pole and has a knob at the top. The knob sticks out above the stamens as a rule. When the flower cup falls, the stamens fall too, because the filaments grow fast to it. But this something else does not fall. It stays on the vine, and you can see it better after the flower cup has fallen. We call it the _pistil_. It has neither honey nor pollen, yet on its account the bees and butterflies visit the flowers. [Illustration: THE PISTIL.] Here is its picture, and you may look at it as carefully as you please. The knob at the top is called the _stigma_, the long, slender part is called the _style_, and the round bottom the _ovary_. If you look over all the vine you will make a discovery. You will find a great many of these pistils in different stages of growth. When the flower cup first falls off, the pistil is very small and has its style and stigma. Then the style and stigma fall, and only the ovary remains. This grows larger and plumper, and you tell me it is the seed-pod, and is full of seeds. You are right about that; it _is_ the seed-pod, and the pistil is the part where the seeds grow. So now you see how very important it is, and I would advise you to take another look at it. If there were no seeds there could be no more plants, so the growth of the seed is a matter of great importance. When the seed first begins to form it is tiny and soft and delicate. It is attached to the inside of the ovary, and we do not then call it a seed, but an ovule. The word “ovule” means “little egg,” and the ovules are really the eggs of the plant, as you will agree if you think a moment.