i86 TBE ASSOCIATIONS OF FLOWERS 
CHAPTER XX. 
Orchis — ' Bee-0 phrys — - Fly-0 phrys — Man-Orchis — 
Furple Orchis — Salep — Climbing Orchises — Butterfly- 
Orchis — Epidendrum — Air - Orchis — Orchideous 
Plants, 
Where Java’s isle, horizon ’d with the floods, 
Lifts to the skies her canopy of woods, 
Pleased Epidendra climbs the waving pines, 
And high in heaven the intrepid beauty shines. 
Gives to the tropic breeze her radiant hair. 
Drinks the bright shower, and feeds upon the air ; 
Her brood, delighted, stretch their callow wings. 
As, poised aloft, their pendent cradle swings. 
Eye the warm sun, the spicy zephyr breathe. 
And gaze unenvious on the world beneath. 
— Darwin. 
The adherence of plants to their own particular circum- 
stances of soil and situation is rather remarkably seen in 
those singularly - formed flowers the bee and fly - orchis. 
Neither of these plants grows in Scotland ; although on 
calcareous hills and plains of England they are sometimes 
numerous, seldom collected into groups, but scattered far 
and wide over the landscape. There are, however, many 
districts in England which possess situations that might 
have been supposed favourable to their growth, where they 
cannot be found, or where, when met with, they are so 
rare as to be regarded as peculiar curiosities. 
There is something so singular in the appearance of an 
insect resting upon a stem as represented by the form and 
colours of a flower, that few plants which do not by their 
utility appeal to our gratification, excite more general in- 
terest than these. It is not unusual, in towns contiguous 
