THE FLOWER AND THE BEE 



In damp thickets on the banks of rivers, twining amid the 

 bushes there grows a pretty vine with smilax-hke leaves and 

 umbels of green flowers pollinated by flies. (Fig. 76.) This 



Fig. 76. Carrion -Flower. Smilax herbacea 

 A fly-flower 



is the carrion-flower and so offensive is its odor that it well 

 merits the name. Another carrion-flower is the purple trillium 

 {Trillium erectum). (Fig. 77.) In early spring children often 

 gather bouquets of its lurid, purple flow^ers which they are soon 



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