How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

Ovule Cells

2 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Ovule Cells

You will be glad to know that the little ovules at the heart of the morning-glory and of all other flowers are single cells.

Ovule Cells: Chlorophyll

That is what the word means.

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