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The familiar flowers are shown, natural size. The corolla is spurred. Late in the season, cleistogamous flowers are often borne on the surface of the ground. A small one is shown at a. A nearly mature pod is shown at b. Both a and b are one third natural size.

Although most flowers are of such character as to insure or increase the chances of cross-pollination, there are some that absolutely forbid crossing. These flowers are usually borne beneath or on the ground, and they lack showy colors and perfumes. They are known as cleistogamous flowers (meaning "hidden flowers"). The plant has normal showy flowers that may be insect-pollinated, and in addition is provided with these simplified flowers. Only a few plants bear cleistogamous flowers. Hog-peanut, common blue violet, fringed wintergreen, and dalibarda are the best subjects in the Northern states. Fig. 205 shows a cleistogamous flower of the blue violet at a. Above the true roots, slender stems bear these flowers, that are provided with a calyx, and a curving corolla which does not open. Inside are the stamens and pistils. Late in the season the cleistogamous flowers may be found just underneath the mold. They never rise above ground. The following summer one may find a seedling plant, in