“ Accustomed as we are to look upon the animal and vegetable king- 
doms as altogether distinct, our astonishment may well be awakened, when 
we see the various forms of the one appropriated by the flowers of the 
other ; and yet such encroachments are but a part of the liberties which 
these Orchidacee are perpetually taking ; for, as if it were too simple a 
matter to imitate the works of Nature only, they mimic the productions of 
art! But not contented to rest even here, they display a restless faculty 
of invention, fully equal to their powers of imitation, and ire thes 
we find their flowers exhibiting a variety of strange and unearthly objects, 
such as bear no resemblance to created things, nor yet to any of the works 
of man.”— BATEMAN, : 
