The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination . Fig. 72. White Catchfly. Silene Armeria THE FLOWER AND THE BEE catchfly (S. nutans). Exotic moth-flowers are also common inthe nightshade family, as several cultivated species of tobacco, the long-flowered to-bacco {Nicotiana longi-flora), which has a greentube 4 inches long, andthe similarly flowerednight-blooming tobacco(iV. noctiflora, Fig. 74a),and the white flowersof the Jamestown weed,which are 3 inches species of lilies arepollinated by hawk-moths, as Lilium candi-chim and L. Martagon,as are also several spe-cies of gentians
The flower and the bee; plant life and pollination . Fig. 72. White Catchfly. Silene Armeria THE FLOWER AND THE BEE catchfly (S. nutans). Exotic moth-flowers are also common inthe nightshade family, as several cultivated species of tobacco, the long-flowered to-bacco {Nicotiana longi-flora), which has a greentube 4 inches long, andthe similarly flowerednight-blooming tobacco(iV. noctiflora, Fig. 74a),and the white flowersof the Jamestown weed,which are 3 inches species of lilies arepollinated by hawk-moths, as Lilium candi-chim and L. Martagon,as are also several spe-cies of gentians {Gen-tiana verna and G;bavarica), the vernalcrocus {Crocus vermis) yseveral kinds of thesweet-scented Gardeniaand a number of or-chids in the genus Ha-benaria. (Fig. 75.) Several years ago atCambridge, Mass., Isaw in bloom that re-markable orchid fromMadagascar, Angroecum sesquipedale, which bears large, snow-white flowers with a slender green nectary of the astonishing 154. Fig. 73. Racemed Silene
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