. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. Arethusa and Pogonia The orchid belle of our swamps, so fitly named for the water nymph of the ancients, Arethusa, A. bid- bosa, presents one of the most :#/^ interesting problems in fertil- ization furnished by our wild orchids. I have indicated a group of the or- chids in their usual marshy haunt, and in Fig. i, separately, a series of diagrams presents sec- tions of the flower
. Blossom hosts and insect guests; how the heath family, the bluets, the figworts, the orchids and similar wild flowers welcome the bee, the fly, the wasp, the moth and other faithful insects. Fertilization of plants. Arethusa and Pogonia The orchid belle of our swamps, so fitly named for the water nymph of the ancients, Arethusa, A. bid- bosa, presents one of the most :#/^ interesting problems in fertil- ization furnished by our wild orchids. I have indicated a group of the or- chids in their usual marshy haunt, and in Fig. i, separately, a series of diagrams presents sec- tions of the flower, natu- ral size and duly indexed. The column is here quite elongated, forked at the tip, the space between the forks occupied by the anther, which is hinged to the upper division. This anther lid is closed tightly, with the sticky mass of pollen hidden behind it in the cavity. The stigma is on the external inner side of the lower division, and thus 151. 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; Davie, Eleanor E. New York, Newson
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