An ancient mythological tale suggests that parents place a sprig of mistletoe above a baby’s crib to ward off fairies. Another tradition involves picking a berry off the mistletoe bough each time ...

I am sitting in the neat little home of the sick boy, trying to remember how many times I have done this. It is not a happy thought. In memory, faces parade by, some of the names forgotten, but ...

In flowering plants, the pollen grain germinates once it reaches the carpel, and develops a tube that will reach and fuse with the ovule.