260 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [| SEPTEMBER, 1914, 
number of possibilities practically infinite. That primordial life may have 
been of small dimensions need not disturb us. Quantity is no account in 
these considerations. sextant clei once existed as a speck of protoplasm 
not so big as a pin’s head.”” We never suspected that Shakespeare was at 
all primordial, but we can point to something still smaller but quite 
sufficiently complex. This plant (fig. 30) of Cycnoches densiflorum was 
Fig. 30. CYCNOCHES DENSIFLORUM. 
v be seen without 
once a speck of protoplasm so minute that it could scarcel} ae 
n 
a microscope. It was then packed away in a small cavity with hu ‘ 
i 
thousands if not millions* of others just like itself, and now look at 
se of 
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ave not counted them, and never had the ogportunity. “age lions or abou 
Cycnoches chlorochilon the oe ee of atl is estimated at about four mil ’ 
equal to the pocuinkios of Lond (See O.R., xvii. p. 168) 
