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Botanic Garden), a hover-fly (Eristalis nemorumZ.) and 2 bees — i. Apis mellifica Z. 

 5, skg. ; 2. Osmia rufa Z. 5, persistently skg. Plateau (Ghent Botanic Garden), the 

 honey-bee and Osmia sp. Ekstam (Nova Zemlia), flies. 



2004. M. intermedia Link. (Herm. Muller, ' FertiHsation,' pp. 415-16, 

 ' Weit. Beob.,' Ill, p. 17 ; Kirchner, ' Flora v. Stuttgart,' p. 562 ; Knuth, ' Bloemen- 

 biol. Bijdragen.') — In the small, homogamous, sky-blue flowers of this species the 

 stigma is at the same level as the anthers, so that an insect proboscis probmg 

 for nectar is even less likely to touch both with the same side than in M. alpestris. 

 The connectives are produced into broad swollen appendages covering the anthers, 

 and preventing an inserted proboscis from taking up pollen to be transferred to the 

 stigma. These two peculiarities ensure crossing by insect-visits to a greater extent 

 than in the preceding species, but should these fail automatic self-pollination regularly 

 takes place. 



Fig. 278. Myosotis alpestris^ F. W. Schmidt. A. Small-Howered dark-blue form. ^. Do., partly 

 dissected from the side. C Large-flowered paler form. /?. .1 stamen before dehiscence. M-C^7; 

 -^ X 35.) 7z, nectary ; ov, ovary. 



Visitors. — Herm. Muller gives the following list. — 



A. Diptera. (a) Bombyliidac: \. Bomb3'lius major Z., skg. {b) Muscidae: 

 2. Aricia incana Wiedem., freq., skg.; 3. Limnophora sp., skg.; 4. PoUenia vespillo 

 F., skg. (<:) Syrphidae: 5. Ascia podagrica F., skg.; 6. Chrysogaster viduata Z., 

 do. ; 7. Syritta pipiens Z., freq., skg. B. Hymenoptera. Apidae : all skg. : 

 8. Andrena albicans AfuIL 5; 9. A. fasciata Wesm. S; 10. A. nana K. t>; 11. A. 

 parvula A'. 5, in large numbers; 12. Apis mellifica Z. 5, numerous: hanging verti- 

 cally or obliquely from the flower, it inserts the tip of its tongue with great accuracy 

 into the small opening of the corolla-tube; 13. Sphecodes gibbus Z. j, skg. 

 C. Lepidoptera. Rhopalocera: 14. Coenonympha pamphilus Z., freq., skg.; 

 15. Pieris napi Z., skg.; 16. P. rapae Z., do. 



The following were recorded by the observers, and for the locahties stated. — 



Knuth, the honey-bee and two hover-flies, skg. (Eristalis arbustorum Z.. and 

 Syritta pipiens Z.). MacLeod (Flanders), a Muscid and the honey-bee (Bot. Jaarb. 

 Dodonaea, Ghent, v, 1893, p. 338, vi, 1894, p. 371). 



