blossom Hosts Jiui Insect Guests 



Its long, white, tapering spire of feathery 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 (like B of the figure). I looked in vain 

 for a single stigmatic plant or flower ; but far across 

 the swamp, a thousand feet distant, I at length dis- 

 covered a single spire, composed entirely of pistillate 



flowers, as shown at A, and my magnifving-glass 

 clearly revealed the pollen upon their stigmas — 

 doubtless a welcome messao^e brouo^-ht from the 

 isolated affinity afar by some winged sponsor, to 

 whom the peculiar fragrance of the flower offers a 

 special attraction, and thus to whom the fortunes of 

 the devil's-bit have been committed. 



THE CANADA LILY AND ITS COUSINS 



The gorgeous Canada lily, Liliitin Canadcnsc, 

 flaunts its spotted yellow petals in the hope of 



