Asks for information about pollen of bee orchid. Asks for specimens.
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Asks for information about pollen of bee orchid. Asks for specimens.
Asks about removal of pollen-masses in bee orchid.
Will return home on 5th and go to Charles Langton’s on the 9th.
Thanks for orchid specimens.
On 10th and 11th will be at Tunbridge Wells.
Thanks for Epipactis.
Has AGM looked at pollen masses of bee orchid? Discusses method of insect fertilisation. Asks for specimens.
Thanks for observations on bee orchid.
Comments on Hooker’s ["On the functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Discusses rostellum and describes fertilisation of Epipactis.
Asks AGM to make an experiment on Epipactis.
Discusses Spiranthes. Did AGM see dipterous insects insert proboscis?
Asks for information about Epipactis.
Describes fertilisation of Orchis pyramidalis.
Has received moth with pollen from O. pyramidalis.