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passion -flower, with large spreading flowers, 

 with whitish green petals, and a blue radiated 

 nectarium ; is succeeded by a large oval, yel- 

 lowish fruit. It is in flower from July until 

 October ; but the flowers are only of one day's 

 duration, generally opening about eleven or 

 twelve o'clock, and frequently in hot sunny 

 weather burst open with elasticity, and continue 

 fully expanded all that day ; and the next they 

 gradually close, assuming a decayed appearance, 

 and never open any more. 



THE BEE-FLOWER. 



The flowers of the great Bee Orchis, a plant 

 so called, are in the highest degree singular and 

 beautiful ; they so perfectly resemble the smaller 

 kind of humming-bee, that any person might 

 strike at them, supposing them to be bees sitting 

 on the plant. The upper part, representing the 

 head, is white ; the side pieces, representing 

 wings, are purple ; and the body is brown, 

 variegated in an elegant manner with lines and 

 streaks of yellow. They are to be met in 

 chalk pits, and flower in June. 



