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"Those are epiphytic orchids air-plants, you know: they require no earth for their roots: they live on the air." "Like a chameleon?" "Like a chameleon." He took down from its nail one of the little wooden slabs, and showed her the roots coiled about it, with the cluster of bulbs. The flower was snow-white and shaped like a butterfly.
The complemental males of certain Cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or the hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and of prehensile limbs. In these cases it is the male which has been modified, and has lost certain important organs, which the females possess.
It is only by the botanical structure of the flowers that the orchid may be readily distinguished, the epiphytic character being of little significance botanically. A brief glance at this structural peculiarity may properly precede our more elaborate consideration of a few species of these remarkable flowers. The orchids are usually very irregular, and six-parted.
His aerial creations resemble the blossoms of the epiphytic orchids, which have no root in the soil, but draw their nourishment from the moisture of the air. Their birth was of the womb of morning dew, And their conception of the glorious prime. Among the minor poems of Spenser the most delightful were his Prothalamion and Epithalamion.
We camped at 6,670 feet, amongst a vegetation I little expected to find so close to the snows of Kinchin; it consisted of oak, maple, birch, laurel, rhododendron, white Daphne, jessamine, Arum, Begonia, Cyrtandraceae, pepper, fig, Menispermum, wild cinnamon, Scitamineae, several epiphytic orchids, vines, and ferns in great abundance.
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