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to suck the honey, their proboscis get inextricably caught 
in the flower, and they perish miserably. M. Kunckel 
d’Herculais tried hard but could not help them to get 
free; the only result of his well-meant efforts was to 
decapitate the hapless insects.!* 
There is also a well-known orchid which has a hinged 
lip. When the unsuspecting insect enters the flower 
and passes over the lip, it is suddenly jerked forward 
and thrown into a sort of bath of liquid ; as it painfully 
crawls out, with wetted wings, it has to carry away the 
pollen masses and so effect pollination. There is no 
cruelty in this, for the insect is supposed to visit another 
flower and cannot be much harmed. 
There are certain flowers whose honey intoxicates the 
bees, who may often be seen, quite drunk and incapable, 
crawling about the ground below them, But this is a 
business matter, for the bees are intended to get a taste 
for this particular kind of honey and so benefit the plant. 
No doubt, in time, they will discover how to enjoy it 
without injuring themselves, much as, according to Dr. 
Archdall Reid, intemperance will inevitably work out its 
own cure amongst human beings, 
1 Francis Darwin. 2 Fechner. 3 Schrammen. 
4 Maeterlinck. 5 Haberlandt. & Wager. 
? Haberlandt. 8 Hildebrandt. ® Raunkiaer. 
10 Samuels, Tischler. ™ Tischler. 12 Fitting. 
18 Heckel, Linsbauer. 14 Dop. 15 Farmer, Lidforss, Shibata: 
16 Kniep. 17 Sammet, Lilienfeldt. 
18 Fenner. 19 Coupin. 
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