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slight change in the droop of the hp. In another 

 moment he has passed this ordeal, and his head is 

 seen protruding from the window -like opening 

 (A) on one side of the column. But his struggles 



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are not yet ended, for his egress is still slightly 

 checked by the narrow dimensions of the opening, 

 and also by the detention of the anther, which 

 his thorax has now encountered. A strange eti- 

 quette this of the cypripedium, which speeds its 



