paper nine show long-tougued bees — Bomhus, Synhalonia, 

 Anthophora and Melissodes — as their principal visitors and 

 depend mainly upon them. Eight show special adaptation 

 to bees in general or to shorter-tongued species. Early 



FIG. 36. 

 Fig. 36. Sage (^Salvia glutinnsa). 1 and 2, visited by bumble-beee. 2, style 

 touching tiiorax. 1, Anthers touching inseut. 3, stameq with long connective, 

 which connects the sterile anther lying in front ot the opening of the tube of 

 the corolla, and the fertile anther lying in the arched upper lip . In 4 and 5, the 

 dagger indicates the point where the insect strikes the hinged sterile anther. 

 (After Eerner von Marilaun.) 



