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at length has become reconciled to his condition, 

 and has determined to rationally fulfil the ideal of 

 his environment, as he may perhaps have already 



done voluntarily before. 

 The buzzing ceases, and 

 our bee is now finding 

 sweet solace for his in- 

 carceration in the co- 

 pious nectar which he 

 finds secreted among 

 the fringy hairs in the 

 upper narrowed portion 

 of the flower, as shown 

 at Fig. 1 8 A. Having 

 satiated his appetite, he 

 concludes to quit his 

 close quarters. After a few moments of more 

 vehement futile struggling and buzzing, he at 

 length espies, through the passage above the nec- 

 tary fringe, a gleaming light, as from two win- 

 dows (A). Towards these he now approaches. 

 As he advances the passage becomes narrower 

 and narrower, until at length his back is brought 

 against the overhanging stigma (Fig. 18 B). So 

 narrow is the pass at this point that the efforts of 

 the bee are distinctly manifest from the outside in 

 the distension of the part and the consequent 



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