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MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS 



preferred or designed by the flower, and this de- 

 pendence on the insect's tongue or eye would 

 seem to be left to chance. 



In another closely allied species, however, we 

 heave a distinct provision which insures the proper 

 approach of the tongue— one of many similar de- 

 vices by which the tongue is conducted directly 

 to one or the other of the pollen discs. 



This is the Ragged Orchid, a near relative of 

 the foregoing, H.psycodes, but far less fortunate in 



its attributes of beauty, 



entrance to 

 nectary, side ft ,^ 

 aperture of 

 opening divid 

 ed by palate 



pollen pouch, 

 h L-st ism a. 

 m viscid pollen- 

 "' and guard- 

 ing opening 



its long scattered spike 

 of greenish-white flow- 

 ers being so inconspic- 

 uous in its sedgy haunt 

 as often to conceal the 

 fact of its frequency. 

 Its individual flower is 

 shown enlarged at Fig. 

 12 — the lip here cut 

 with a lacerated fringe 

 (H. lacera). The pol- 

 len - pouches approach 

 slightly at the base, directly opposite the nec- 

 tary, where the two viscid pollen - glands stand 

 on guard. Now were the opening of the nectary 

 at this point unimpeded, the same condition 



