. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FIG. LADY'S SLIPPER. of the etemleae lady's slip[>er is unusually large and inflated, and is cleft bv a fissure which extfjnda the length of its face. It is an exquisite rose-colour, veined with wavy lines of a deeper shade, but the rest of the flower is purplish brown or green. If a bee enters the pouch through the cleft, it fir^t sucks the nectar, then turning about it crawls out at Uie opening beneath the col umn. In doing so, it first comas in contact with the stignia, and th
. Flowers of the field and forest [microform]. Fleurs sauvages; Botany; Botanique; Wild flowers. FIG. LADY'S SLIPPER. of the etemleae lady's slip[>er is unusually large and inflated, and is cleft bv a fissure which extfjnda the length of its face. It is an exquisite rose-colour, veined with wavy lines of a deeper shade, but the rest of the flower is purplish brown or green. If a bee enters the pouch through the cleft, it fir^t sucks the nectar, then turning about it crawls out at Uie opening beneath the col umn. In doing so, it first comas in contact with the stignia, and theu with the anthi r^ which deposit loose, powdery pollen on the insect's back. Repeating process at uioUier flower, the bee again in eticaping meets with the itigma Wfore the anthrr>4. The former, instead of Itnnji cmooth atid itiiky, i« bt-wt with littlr, "tiff, pointiii pio- jectinnii whioiiit ImckwanU and form an effective brush fo- removing pollen from an inwct as it ::\'M-t. * tion in ensured selt pullinalion i» wud* cred impOMible. Hix otlM-r 8i)t'i.'ie- of cyprliwdium have hd-n observed in Canada. Tho handsonieHt of all iM the tthowy lady's i^lipper. Cyprip*- dium sjicctabile, whiih it often found in l*at-bi)it(( nnd tamnruc swamps from N' Scotia to tJcorBinn Buy. It ban ovate Icavi-s. nnd thi' flowi-r diitphiy* a largi- ru«y pink Mtript'd lip and whiiixh pelaU and st'|)als. Two yellow lady's slippers blonHorn from May to July. The smaller Cypripcdmni parviflorum. bears "golden slippers mcit un fiiiries' ; It often occurs in swami* in Ontario, and is fouvid as far west as thi' Rockv Mountains. The fragrant, grartful flower has a deep-yellow sat* ami rrildi^h- brown sepals and petals. The larger yellow lady's slipper, Cypripedium pubescent, Jian a pale-gold lip, sometimes striped or spotted with "rubiea. fairy favourH," and the nar row petals and sepals are of pale fawn col- our veined with de
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