Crossword-Solution: OPHRYS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The former is the case in the Bee Ophrys (Ophrys apifera), the mechanism of which greatly surprised Darwin.

The Ophrys apifera, offers, as you will see, a curious contradiction in structure." Besides attending to the fertilisation of the flowers he was already, in 1860, busy with the homologies of the parts, a subject of which he made good use in the Orchid book.

What a contrast with our temperate European species, with the exception of some species of Ophrys!--I now know of three or four cases of self-fertilising orchids, but all these are provided with means for an occasional cross.

Ophrys apifera.) What I especially wish, from information which I have received since publishing the enclosed, is that the state of the pollen-masses should be noted in flowers just beginning to wither, in a district where the bee-orchis is extremely common.

Have you looked at the pollen-masses of the bee-Ophrys? I do not know whether the Epipactis grows near to your house: if it does, and any object takes you to the place (pray do not for a moment think me so very unreasonable as to ask you to go on purpose), would you be so kind [as] to watch the flowers for a quarter of an hour, and mark whether any insects (and what?) visit these flowers.