of this in the little 

 wild flower known 

 as the devil's-bit 

 (Chamcelirium hiteuni), 

 whose long, white, ta- 

 pering spire of feath- 

 ery bloom may often 

 be seen rising above 

 the sedges in the 

 swamp. Two years 

 ago I chanced upon 

 a little colony of four or five 

 plants at the edge of a bog. 

 The flowers, all of them, were 

 mere petals and stamens (B, Fig. 

 8). I looked in vain for a single 

 stigmatic plant or flower ; but far 

 across the swamp, a thousand feet 



