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Updated: May 21, 2025
This is the Ragged Orchid, a near relative of the foregoing, H. psycodes, but far less fortunate in its attributes of beauty, its long scattered spike of greenish-white flowers being so inconspicuous in its sedgy haunt as often to conceal the fact of its frequency. The pollen-pouches approach slightly at the base, directly opposite the nectary, where the two viscid pollen-glands stand on guard.
In the case of a smaller bee visiting the flower, the insect would find it necessary to creep further into the opening, and thus might bring its thorax against the pollen-glands. In either case the change of position in the pollinia would insure the same result. We have thus seen adaptation to the thorax, the eyes, and the face in the three examples given.
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