Crossword-Solution: ONCIDIUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oncidium | n. | A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly. |
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| ONCIDIUM | anagram | MUCINOID |
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| BUTTERFLY plant | 1 answer |
| American orchid | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
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See "Animals and Plants," Edition I., Volume II., page 134, where it is stated that Oncidium is fertile with Leptotes, a mistake corrected in the 2nd edition.) I daresay it was my fault, yet I took pains to avoid such blunders.
This paper gives a full account of the self-sterility of Oncidium in cases where the pollen was efficient in fertilising other individuals of the same species and of distinct species.
This is important, as it explains all the astounding projections on the labellum of Oncidium, Phalaenopsis, etc.
Muller, who "fertilised above one hundred flowers of the above-mentioned Oncidium flexuosum, which is there endemic, with its own pollen, and with that taken from distinct plants: all the former were sterile, whilst those fertilised by pollen from any OTHER PLANT of the same species were fertile.') is endemic, for I always thought that the cases of self-sterility with orchids in hot-houses might have been caused by their unnatural conditions.
But, as we shall presently see, distinct plants, raised from seed, of _Oncidium flexuosum,_ and probably of the other species, would have been perfectly capable of fertilising each other, for this is the natural process.