. My studio neighbors. Natural history. A FEW NATIVE ORCHIDS !I3. Fig. 18 B more ample passage in acauie would suggest the medium-sized Bombus as better adapted—as the experiment here- with pictured from my own experience many times would seem to verify, while a honey-bee intro- duced into the flow- er failed to fulfil the demonstration, emerging at the little doorway above without a sign of the cordial parting token. Occasionally I suppose a fool bumblebee is en- trapped within the petal bower and fails to find the proper exit, or it may be—much less a fool—• having run the gantlet once too o
. My studio neighbors. Natural history. A FEW NATIVE ORCHIDS !I3. Fig. 18 B more ample passage in acauie would suggest the medium-sized Bombus as better adapted—as the experiment here- with pictured from my own experience many times would seem to verify, while a honey-bee intro- duced into the flow- er failed to fulfil the demonstration, emerging at the little doorway above without a sign of the cordial parting token. Occasionally I suppose a fool bumblebee is en- trapped within the petal bower and fails to find the proper exit, or it may be—much less a fool—• having run the gantlet once too often, decides to escape the ordeal; hence the occasional mutilated blossom already described. One of the most beautiful of our orchids, though its claims to admiration in this instance are chiefly confined to the foliage, is the common '' Rattlesnake - Plantain," its prostrate I'osettes of exquisitely white reticulated leaves carpeting many a nook in the shadows of the hemlocks, its dense spikes of yellowish-white blossoms signal- ling their welcome to the bees, and fully compen-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York and London, Harper & Brothers
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