POLLINA TION. 



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857. Cypripedium, or lady-slipper. One species of the lady-slipper is 

 .?hown in fig. 468. The labcllum in this genus is shaped like a shoe, as one 



Fig. 461. 

 A group of jacks. 



can see by the section of the flower in fig. 468. The stigma is situated at st, 

 while the anther is situated at a, upon the style. The insect enters about 

 the middle of the boat-shaped labellum. In going out it passes up and out 



