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with which latter the red-brown anthers form a striking contrast. 
Sparingly appearing was the other prince’s pine ( Chimaphila Men- 
ziesiz), a much more delicate and pretty plant than C. wmdellata. 
Soon on every hand occurred an orchid, the rattlesnake plantain 
(Goodyera Menziesii), from the mottled leaves of which the name 
__ was probably derived, though some say the Indians use the plant 
asa remedy for the bite of the rattlesnake. Then the common 
wood-rush (Luzula comosa), put in an appearance, and next, one 
of our most beautiful ferns, the spiny shield-fern ( Aspidium spinu- 
losum). The common wake-robin ( 77cl/ium ovatum), was just 
coming into fruit, while the two mosses (Hypnum loreum, and H. 
_ triguetum), covered the’ ground as witha carpet. On the borders 
of a swamp occurred the Liliaceous plant (Prosartes Oregana,), and 
in the swamp itself were the nine-bark ( Ved/lia opulifolia), the 
beautiful trailing pine (Lycopodium clavatum), whose stems are 
such a favorite in the New England States for decorating during 
Christmas, the twist-stalk (Streplopus amplexifolius), and the 
_ dreaded “ Devil’s walking-club” (Fatsta horrida). This plant, 
about five or six feet high ordinarily, is covered on stem, leaves and 
flower-clusters with long, fragile prickles. When one carelessly 
presses through a clump of these plants, the prickles enter the flesh 
and break off, and, being of a poisonous nature, cause swellings 
which are painful, if not at times dangerous. On returning to camp 
late one evening, being unable to tell one kind of bush from an- 
other in the darkness, we passed through quantities of this bush. 
- Our knees were filled with the troublesome prickles, though we 
_ were quite thickly dressed, and for a week or more to kneel or sit 
Was torture. 
As the woods grew deeper and the ground richer, an occasional 
bunch of the strange, ghostly Indian pipe ( Monotropa uniflora -f 
‘was just appearing above the ground. On my return, six weeks 
later, it was inits prime and most abundant. With it, and earlier 
_ by a month, was the brown Indian pipe ( Monotropa Hypopitys ), 
and with it grew a single specimen of the strange Orobanchaceous 
plant (Boschniakia strobilacea), the specific name of which is very 
_ good, for gothing more like an open pine cone ever existed, unless 
it were another pine cone. Then appeared another of this strange 
set, the leafless Pyrola (P. aphylla), and then another, Merten’s 
—coral-root (Corallorhiza Mertensiana ), sending up its numerous 
