REMARKABLE LEAVES. 



and twisted, so that, with the lateral segments, it is 

 supposed to bear some resemblance to a miniature 

 lizard. Aceras anthropopJiora 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 

 antennae, 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. 90. 



FIG. 91. 



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 



