ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS. “311 
cells with the point of a needle, it will be found that each of them 
contains a pyriform body, the upper part of which is inflated, and 
is composed of little angular masses, bound together by a sort of 
elastic network, while 
the lower part is 
lengthened into a kind 
of pedicel or foot- 
their base in the con- 
tiguous compartments 
of a little pocket. If 
we depress one of these 
pyriform bodies to- 
wards the cup, it ad- 
heres there firmly. We 
may easily satisfy our- 
selves that the pheno- 
menon is spontaneous- 
ly produced in nature; 
and that the pollen- 
Masses are discharged 
ay 
ue 
) 
This cup, then, is the 
. 
stigma, these pyriform 
bodi 
anther. Thus, in this 
Curious flower the Style 
and the Andrzeesoum 
are united to form the | Fig. 360.—Orchis maculata. 
_ Central column, and it has only one stamen. | 
__ Beneath the point of insertion of the floral divisions, the column 
