Abstract

X. Lilium Martagon. C. SPRENGEL was the first to turn his attention to the structure of the beautiful flowers of this plant; † but he did not succeed either in observing insects visiting them or in explaining the contrivances by which they are cross-fertilised when visited by suitable insects. Since SprengePs time nobody had, as far as 1 know, studied the manner of fertilisation of Lilium Martagon. It was, therefore, with great pleasure that, in Thuringia, I examined the structure of its flowers, and watched them in their natural habitatr The results of my observation were as follows.

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