Insects in Great Britain . 
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TABLE XXV. 
Effect of the position of the flower upon the desirability of the visitors. 
Erect. 
Horizontal. 
Pendent. 
Decidedly desirable . 
Desirable .... 
Indifferent .... 
Injurious .... 
30-61 
11-22 
51.02 
7.I4 
52.22 
3-64 
30.21 
13-93 
68.49 
7-49 
20.44 
3-58 
The pendent flowers thus, despite the shallowness of their 
honey, are seen to get the greater proportion of distinctly 
desirable insects, this proportion being chiefly made up by 
Bombi. 
It happens that the majority of the white flowers are 
pendent, all the lilac-blue flowers, except Campanula rotundi- 
folia , are horizontal, and most of the yellow flowers also, while 
the rose-purple flowers are divided. 
TABLE XXVI. 
Colour and position of flowers of Classes F and H. 
Lilac-Blue. 
Rose-Purple. 
Yellow-Scarlet. 
White. 
Erect . . 
O 
4 
2 
O 
Horizontal 
*4 
IO 
II 
3 
Pendent . 
I 
5 
I 
6 
But the observation recorded by means of Tables XXII and 
XXIII, that white and rose-purple flowers of Classes F and H 
get the best of the insects is, however, not entirely due to 
so many of the pendent flowers being white or rose-purple ; 
and if we take the horizontal flowers by themselves, the 
result remains the same, but the differences are somewhat 
lessened. 
By season the distinctly desirable insects get fewer towards 
autumn, the indifferent get a little fewer, while the desirable 
and injurious increase, especially the latter. 
