Crossword-Solution: CATTLEYA 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Asa Gray's papers are in "American Journal of Science," Volume XXXIV., 1862, and XXXVI., 1863.); namely, to split the labellum of a Cattleya, or of some allied orchis, remove caudicle from pollen-mass (so that no loose grains are about) and put it carefully into the large tongue-like rostellum, and see if pollen-tubes will penetrate, or better, see if capsule will swell.

The pollen-tubes directing themselves to stigma is also very curious, though not quite so new, but well worth investigation when you get Cattleya, etc., in flower.

And long afterwards, when the arrangement (or, rather, the ritual pretence of an arrangement) of her cattleyas had quite fallen into desuetude, the metaphor "Do a cattleya," transmuted into a simple verb which they would employ without a thought of its original meaning when they wished to refer to the act of physical possession (in which, paradoxically, the possessor possesses nothing), survived to commemorate in their vocabulary the long forgotten custom from which it sprang.

And so, even in the months of which he had never dared to think again, because they had been too happy, in those months when she had loved him, she was already lying to him! Besides that moment (that first evening on which they had "done a cattleya") when she had told him that she was coming from the Maison Dorée, how many others must there have been, each of them covering a falsehood of which Swann had had no suspicion.

PAGE VANDA SANDERIANA _Frontispiece_ ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISPUM ALEXANDRÆ 67 ONCIDIUM MACRANTHUM 88 DENDROBIUM BRYMERIANUM 127 COELOGENE PANDURATA 160 CATTLEYA LABIATA 173 LOELIA ANCEPS SCHROEDERIANA 197 CYPRIPEDIUM (HYBRIDUM) POLLETTIANUM 210 PREFACE.