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June 7th 62. R. Brown thought Bee O. like bee, to deter insects;

[insertion:] & he went so far that as to believe that in each country orchids resembled the insects of that country

certainly some resemblance; but not more or so much as Fly, which requires insects & the Spider like spider which all require insect, & so cannot be like spider to deter insects. The butterfly orchis is visited by the large nocturnal lepidoptera, but there is small resemblance to a Butterfly

Look again at O. [illeg] this as like a Bee as O. apifera, yet one requires insect agency & the other not. This is conclusive that resemblance of no use.

The names show, as monkey, lizard, [illeg] the number of resemblances; but these remarks are completely fanciful. Some slight, but as I cannot doubt, purely accidental & useless resemblance of the Ophrys & others to insect have given origin to person searching out for resemblance of this strangely shaped flower to some animal or another.