114 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
smaller flowers less conspicuously notched and fringed, while 
there is a variety, holopetala, that has these adornments re- 
duced to a minimum. J. dlephariglotits closely resembles its 
gayer sister in appearance and structure, and by reason of its 
purity is quite as fascinating. Gray considers these species to 
be “ chiefly remarkable for having their viscid discs projecting 
much more even than in A. orbiculata, 
the anterior part of the anther-cell and 
the supporting arm of the stigma united 
tapering and lengthened to such a 
degree that the viscid discs are as if 
raised on a pedicel, projecting consider- 
ably beyond the rest of the column. 
The anther-cells are nearly horizontal, 
greatly divergent, but inclined somewhat 
inward at the ends; so that the discs are 
presented forward and slightly inward,. 
at least in A. blephariglottis, or in H. 
ciliaris more directly forward. Evi- 
dently these projecting discs are to be 
stuck to the head of some nectar-suck- 
ing insect. The stigma, which is rather 
small, is between the lateral arms, in the 
same horizontal line with the discs: the 
discs are small but quite sticky and di- 
rectly affixed to the extremity of a stalk 
Fic. 35.—YELLow FRINGED- . . . . 
Orcuts. which in just proportion to the forward 
Habenaria ciliaris. 
elongation of the anther-cell, etc., is re- 
markably long and slender, twice or thrice the length of the 
pollen-mass it bears. Upon removal, a slight bending or 
turning of the slender stalk brings the pollen-mass into posi- 
tion for reaching the stigma. The discs in ordinary flowers of 
H. ciliaris, are about a line and a half apart (the English line 
is the twelfth part of an inch), the slender spur an inch long, 
