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May 27 /62/ Cephalanthera grandiflora

No nectar. Terminal portion of labellum with crest fronted with globular papillae of average colour: these pass into 3 orange ridges, transversely wrinkled; then become pale at hinge & in cup there are several more darker orange ridges. I gathered 9 flowers lately open - 5 were gnawed & had pollen broken down - 2 gnawed with pollen not broken - 2 not gnawed & with pollen not broken -the gnawing is always where middle ridge passes into the terminal fronted surface; in one case middle ridge further down gnawed. An insect here gnawing would have its head in front of pollen. I never saw ridge in cup gnawed; the cup functionless

The lower sepals become wider apart than represented in drawing, at least in sucking places;

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this is only inaccuracy in [illeg] drawing.

The test of Labellum like that of the lab of Vandeæ

May 28th It is all a mistake about the gnawing the exterior coloured cells often deficient at this point in quite young buds with unopened anthers - No nectar in any flowers. Pillars of pollen project so far from anther over stigma, that I think must oftener fall on stigma than I supposed.