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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 

 have 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.psy codes, but far less fortunate in 



its attributes of beauty, 

 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 

 (//. 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 



entrance to 

 nectary, side 

 aperture of 

 opemng divid 

 ed by paid re. 



pollen pouch, 

 -sfi&ma. 

 viscid pollen - 

 gland guard- 

 ing opening 



Fig. 12 



