226 
228), which grows wild in our woods in midsummer, 
is a less brilliant flower than its English cousin, and 
“Ac is without the spots that serve as signposts. 
Our wood and meadow lilies (Figs. 229, 230) are 
well fitted to secure bee visitors. Their colors 
are brilliant enough to catch the eye of the most 
unobserving of bees in its voyage across 
the meadow, and their spots vivid enough to 
lead -at*-at once: ste, Lhe sre: 
freshment room. 
Try for yourselves to fol- 
low these markings with 
Fic. 228 your tongue, and you will 
win the bee’s reward, a sweet drop of 
nectar. 
Whenever you see a flower with PA 
such vivid markings as these, it will 4 6 
be worth your while to play the bee, 
and start a honey hunt. 
Sometimes the sweet drop lies at eee 
the base of the flower leaves, as in the lilies; some- 
times in a pocket, as in many of the 
orchids; sometimes it is in the bottom of 
a long spur such as you see in the colum- 
bine, violet, and nasturtium (Fig. 231). 
Fig. 232 shows you the beautiful flowers 
of the mountain laurel. 
FIG. 230 
These flowers play a clever trick on 
their bee visitors. They wish to make perfectly sure 
that their pollen will be carried from one blossom to 
another, and so they set a little trap. 
