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MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS 



of depending from the throat, grows upward from 

 the lip, and, as we look at the flower directly from 

 the front, completely hides the opening to the 

 nectary, and an insect is compelled to insert its 



tongue on one side, which direction causes it to 

 pass directly beneath the pollen disc, as in H. 

 lacera, and with the same result. 



Of all our native orchids, at least in the north- 

 eastern United States, the Cypripedium, or Moc- 



