128 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (May, 1916. 
Three are in bloom at the present moment, and others are not blooming 
this year. A group of this interesting plant is shown in the annexed figure, 
the block having been kindly lent by the Editor of The Garden. The 
flowers are green, with brown markings on the lip. 
Some interesting remarks on the behaviour of these plants in a wild 
state are given in a recent issne of The Garden (p. 184), by Mr. E. H. 
sv a. 
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Fig. 28. OPHRYS ARANIFERA (the Spider Orchid). 
Woodall, under the heading of Notes from the Riviera. He remarks: 
“* There are some ingenious theories about the seeding of Ophrys, and it is 
said that a small insect is required to fertilise these quaint blooms, which so 
mimic a bee, or a drone, a fly, or even a little looking glass, that one Is lost 
in conjecture as to the purpose of these impersonations. In my valley, 
which has been left to Nature for some fifty years at least, there are many 
