OUR MOCCASIN FLOWERS AT HOME. 



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which the world can boast. Queen indeed of the Indian moccasin- 

 flowers, it flaunts its alert white petals and dainty wine-tipped 

 slippers in the most choice glooms, at the feet of the tamarack 

 and spruce, or sheltered among tall ferns, brakes and Indian-poke. 

 The plicate leaves of the Cy[^rilyediiinis resemble the foliage of 



Fig. 15. The Small Purple-fringed Orchis (Habciiaria psycodcs) 

 Closely allied to Habciiaria grandiflora of New England, and to the Eng- 

 lish Long Purples (Orchis iiiorio) of ancient literature. They are men- 

 tioned by Shakespeare in Hamlet. 



" There with fantastic garlands she did come 

 Of croii.'-flo-a'ers. nettles, daisies, and long piirf'les." 



'■ Hamlet," Act U-\, Sc. 7. 



