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OTHER ORCHIDS. 



have a proboscis long enough to fathom the depth of this 

 nectary, suck its nectar and extricate its pollinia. 



^Purple- fringed Ore/its. In June and July, look 

 in wet grassy meadows for these handsome Orchids, known 

 by their erect, tall stems, beset with lance-shaped leaves 

 below, bracts above, and a terminal plume-like raceme of 

 roseate purple-fringed flowers. The twisted ovary, long 



slender spur, the lip 3-part- 

 ed and fringed, the 2 other 

 petals either notched or 

 fringed, are their striking 

 features. Then the column, 

 protruding forward and 

 apart, the 2 button-shaped 

 glands of the cooped pol- 

 linia, present altogether an 

 appearance extravagant and 

 grotesque. 



2, Cypripedium acaule ; 3, plan of the flower ; s (outer circle), 3 sepals, the 2 lower 

 united, p, the petals, one of them (I) the lip, e, the stamens, o, the ovary ; 4, the col- 

 umn, seen from beneath, showing the 3 stamens. 1 leaf -like, and stigma ; 5, Arethusa 

 bulbdsa ; 6, the column, with lid-like anther opened by the bee. 



Fig. LXII is an enlarged view of a flower of 0. Psycliodes 

 (psyche, a butterfly, eidos, appearance). With a lip more 

 deeply fringed, and the two other petals, p p, also fringed, 



