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1. GENERAL Structure of the Flower of Orchids.—The exotic representatives of the natural order Orchideæ have long been favourite objects of cultivation in our hot-houses, from the beautiful and often bizarre form assumed by their curious flowers. Great as is the variety in the size, colour, and form of the flower in the different genera, it is, nevertheless, more than in most natural orders, constructed always on one plan in its main features. Before describing some of the more remarkable forms, it will be necessary to give a general description of this type, and to define the more important of the technical terms used by botanists in relation to it. Both in this account and in the description which follows of particular species, we are largely indebted to Mr. Darwin's most interesting work2 on orchids, of which a new edition has just appeared; the illustrations are also reproduced, by the kindness of the publisher, from the same work.
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B., A. Remarkable Plants1: II.—Some Curious Orchids.. Nature 15, 357–359 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015357a0
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