iy8 THE PLANT WORLD. 



The next in season to appear is the fragrant Rose Pogonia 

 [Pog07iia ophioglossoides), which being rather a sociable flower, is 

 found in quantities where it has once fairly become established. It 

 is of a pale pink, its drooping lip bearded and crested with hues of 

 white and yellow. The five sepals are almost equal and are regularly 

 placed, fan-like, above the lip. There is always present a leafy bract 

 which spreads over the capsule as the seed matures. The Pogonia 

 grows singly, or in twos or threes, on a stem six to twelve inches in 

 height, bearing one, two or three smooth, pale green ovate leaves. 



If we search in the peat bogs or swamps during early June we 

 are almost certain to discover this violet-scented little orchid, and 

 often growing near it the Calopogon [Liniodoruin tuber osuiii). This 

 latter orchid seems to enjoy quite an universal popularity, partly, 

 doubtless, as it is rather more rare than some of our more beautiful 

 species, and often difScult to procure even when its haunts are known. 

 The stem, a foot or more in height, bears often eight to thirteen 

 bright magenta flowers and one long, narrow, parallel-veined leaf. 

 The flower is usually one inch long, the sepals and petals similar. 

 The lip, erect and crested with many hairs of orange, yellow and 

 white, is widely triangular at the apex, and the edges so revolute as 

 seemingly to form a tube. The column is incurved between the two 

 lateral petals. Each flower is subtended by a small bract. 



In July we may search for the Habenarias (herbs with leafy 

 stems and tuberous or fibrous roots), which present little or no diffi- 

 culty of identification to the beginner if he has taken a careful survey 

 of the admirable illustrations of Habenaria contained in Vol. I. of 

 Britton and Brown's Flora. Their oddly shaped flowers are spicate 

 and resemble a flock of so many tiny birds. The predominating 

 colors among the genus are yellow, purple, white and green; the lip, 

 generally spreading, is often cut into fantastic shapes and heavily 

 fringed. These orchids, or at least those species common to Long 

 Island, are found almost exclusively in bogs and moist ground. 



The first to appear in early July, though by no means the most 

 beautiful, is the Ragged Orchis {Habenaria lacera), which I have 

 found growing in the water, but I must add that one is hardly repaid 

 for the trouble consequent upon obtaining it, as it is very unobtrusive 

 and "plain "in appearance. Its heavily fringed lip, as well as the 

 sepals and petals, are of a pale green, but the flowers have no fragrance 

 to make amends for their lack of beauty. H. blcpliariglottis, the 

 White Fringed Orchis, is probably the most striking of the genus. 

 This orchid is rather uncommon, and after a fruitless search through 

 the wet, low grounds, we consider ourselves fortunate if we at last 

 come upon a great expanse of these snow-white flowers in full bloom. 



