BEE ORCHIS III 
The rostellum contains two pouches, and has a sticky disk, being 
placed much as in Ovches. The pollen-stalks are long, thin, and 
flexible, and the pollen-masses are at a variable distance apart. The 
pollen-grains vary in shape. The anther cells open directly or soon 
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Photo. Flatters & Garnett 
Bree Orcuis (Ophrys apifera, Huds.) 
after the flower opens. The pollinia are pear-shaped, and after they 
are set free, if not removed by insects, hang by the caudicles above the 
stigma, and are very readily brought into contact with the stigmatic 
surface. 
It is probable that the apparent mimicry, so-called, of the flower, 
by which it may induce bees to visit it, is for securing occasional cross- 
