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But Cattleya labiata vera never fails, and an interesting question it is to resolve why this alone should be so carefully protected. One may cautiously surmise that its habitat is even damper than others'. In the next place, some plants have their leaves red underneath, others green, and the flower-sheath always corresponds; this peculiarity is shared by C. l. Warneri alone.
Those were the coaching days, when botanists had not much opportunity for comparison. It is to be observed, also, that Gardner's Cattleya was the nearest relative of Swainson's; it is known at present as C. labiata Warneri. The true species, however, has points unmistakable. Some of its kinsfolk show a double flower-sheath; very, very rarely, under exceptional circumstances.
It is the flower-sheath, that folds the corolla, till prepared to encounter the sun's burning rays. "Read!" I did read, one stanza. I could not go on though the scaffold were the doom of my silence. "What foolery is this! Give it to me." The paper was pulled from my clinging fingers.
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