78 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
united to the stamen of the inner circle that would normally 
come opposite to it.” 
Mr. 5. I. Smith, of Norway, Maine, in some notes read before 
the Boston Society of Natural History, in 1863, says that he 
came on a bunch of this Lady’s Slipper, “which was almost 
covered with numbers of a minute flower-bectle, apparently 
attracted by the nectar-like fluid that moistens the long hairs 
in the labellum. These beetles were crawl- 
ing over the flowers in every direction; and 
presently one crawled from one of the 
lateral petals up the column, over one of the 
pollinia with some difficulty, and out upon 
the stigma. This was repeated three or 
four times by different individuals; some 
returning by way of the column, others. 
passing over the sterile stamen on to the 
labellum. Several beetles passed from the 
lateral petals down to the labellum without 
touching the pollinia or the stigma. Only 
two were seen to alight upon any of the 
flowers; and one of these went into the 
labellum without touching the pollinia or 
stigma; the other passed over both. Near- 
| ly all the beetles, when examined with a 
Fic. 23.—Dwarr Orcuis. 
Habenaria obtusata. Jens, were found to have little masses of 
pollen attached to them; and many could scarcely walk for 
this reason. Most of the flowers on which the beetles were 
found had been fertilized, and under a strong lens showed 
minute particles of pollen among the sharp pointed papillz 
which beset the stigma. Of many flowers from different places, 
nearly all had the pollen removed in minute particles from the 
anther to the stigma; but in two or three instances the pollen 
had been removed in one mass as if by some large insect.” 
Turn now from this, our largest Orchid, to the Dwarf 
