The Young Queens 
by the genius that some of our humblest 
flowers display in contriving that the visit 
of the bee shall infallibly procure them 
the crossed fertilisation they need. See 
the marvellous fashion in which the Or- 
chis Moris, our humble country orchid, 
combines the play of its rostellum and 
retinacula; observe the mathematical and 
automatic inclination and adhesion of its 
pollinia ; as also the unerring double see- 
saw of the anthers of the wild sage, which 
touch the body of the visiting insect at a 
particular spot in order that the insect 
may, in its turn, touch the stigma of the 
neighbouring flower at another particular 
spot; watch, too, in the case of the Pedi- 
cularis Sylvatica, the successive, calculated 
movements of its stigma; and indeed the 
entrance of the bee into any one of these 
three flowers sets every organ vibrating, 
just as the skilful marksman who hits the 
black spot on the target will cause all the 
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