THE PYRAMID ORCHIS 



ORCHIS PYRAMIDALIS 



THERE are all sorts in the plant world, and 

 the Pyramid Orchis is prince of mechani- 

 cians there. "In no other plant, or indeed in 

 hardly any other animal, can adaptations of one 



a, sepals, b, petals, b', centre of flower with labellum ; w, anther ; 

 X, stigmas ; y, rostellum ; z, guiding plates on labellum. c, pollinia. 

 d, twisted ovary. 



part to another and of the whole to other organisms 



widely remote in the scale of Nature be named more 



perfect than those presented by this orchis." This 



was the final judgment of Charles Darwin as he 



finished a most careful study of the plant. And 



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