The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . l, but absorbing moisture for their nutrimentfrom the surrounding atmosphere. The beautiful class of Orchis flowers, some ofwhich, termed by botanists Ophryses, present theappearance of a plant upon which the bee, the fly,or the butterfly has drooped awhile its wing totaste its sweets; and some others, which in theirmore common varieties, as the Orchis mascula,may be found in summer in almost every spot ofEnglish woodland, are in the torrid zone epiphytesupon the barks of trees, and constit
The field, the garden and the woodland, or, Interesting facts respecting flowers and plants in general . l, but absorbing moisture for their nutrimentfrom the surrounding atmosphere. The beautiful class of Orchis flowers, some ofwhich, termed by botanists Ophryses, present theappearance of a plant upon which the bee, the fly,or the butterfly has drooped awhile its wing totaste its sweets; and some others, which in theirmore common varieties, as the Orchis mascula,may be found in summer in almost every spot ofEnglish woodland, are in the torrid zone epiphytesupon the barks of trees, and constitute one of themost beautiful objects of tropical us they grow only on the earth, and theyare far less splendid in appearance. Our Englishspecies of Ophrys plants, or plants resemblinginsects, will grow only on chalky soils. They areespecially numerous upon the chalky range of ORCHIS PLANTS. 95 hills that spread over a great part of Kent; butthey rarely, or perhaps never, long survive trans-planting to a garden. We have four species of thisplant. The one whose resemblance to an insect. ilep— Orcltis inascula, is the most striking is the Bee ophrys {Ophrysapifera), which might indeed easily lead the un-practised observer into the belief that it was a beeresting upon the stem of a flower. In South 96 ORCHIS PLANTS. America the species are very numerous. Oneresembles the mosquito, another the butterfly;and the wanderer among the moist woods is oftenstartled by the appearance of a lizard which oneof these plants presents. 97 Letter V. RoDts—Parts of Roots—Uses of Roots—Couch Grass—Adaptationof Roots to Soils—Sea-side Grasses—Ribband Grass—UprightSea-lyme Grass—Foxtail Grass—IncursioHs of Sand—Differenceof Soils—Plants of the Mountain—Plants of the Valley—Localityof some Plants — Crocus — Pseony—Variations in colours ofFlowers—Milk Vetch — Hibiscus Mutabilis—Shoe-Flower —Plants of Torrid Zone—Tree Ferns—Plants of Africa—
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