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and twisted, so that, with the lateral segments, it is 
supposed to bear some resemblance to a miniature 
lizard. Aceras anthropophora has 
a ridiculous caricature of a little 
man with distended arms and 
legs; hence it is popularly 
known as the Man _ Orchis. 
But perhaps the best of these 
“counterfeit presentments” is 
to be found in the flowers of 
Ophrys muscifera, which re- 
markably imitate a fly. They 
are of a purple-brown hue, with 
a square patch of pale blue 
in the centre of the labellum. 
The upper petals provide the 
antennz, and altogether the 
appearance is that of a fly settled on a flower. Old 
Parkinson says of it: ‘‘ The neather parte of the flie 
is black, with a list of ashe colour crossing the backe 
FIG. go. Fic. or. 
with a show of legges, hanging at it; the naturall 
flie seemeth so to be in’ love with it, that you shall 
seldome come in the heate of the daie but you shall 
find one sitting close thereon.” Whether the latter 
