84 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 



peated as often as desired, and that the pitcher plant in- 

 vites flies and other insects into its prettj^ red parlor, 

 where all that enter leave hope behind, losing their lives by 

 drov^ning in the water with which the pitcher is filled. 



A division of the swamp table was devoted to the 

 native orchids. Having received what I considered an 

 abnormally large blossom of Cvpripedium puhescens from 

 the Virginia Hot Springs, I took it to the school to exhibit. 

 Imagine mj^ chagrin at finding a vase containing a dozen 

 of equally large blossoms which had been gathered c|uite 

 near the city. The showy orchis, the smaller yellow 

 Cypripedium and the stemless pink one completed the list. 

 The pupils were told that the cypripediums were fairy 

 slippers or Indian moccasins, but indeed they were large 

 enough to make the name ladies' slipper seem almost ap- 

 propriate. 



Central and Bronx Parks sent a cartload of flowering 

 trees and shrubs, dogwood, sassafras, pussy willow, slip- 

 pery elm, sycamore, maple with immense keys, also red, 

 swamp and silver maple, spice bush, tulip, red oak, Japan- 

 ese plum, wild cherry, chestnut, poplar, birch, beech, 

 apple, pear, alder, horse chestnut, walnut, butternut, 

 hazel, ailanthus, plum-leaved viburnum, staghorn sumac, 

 forsythia and wild grape. These plants cover two tables. 



Amongthe wild flowers were all of the trilliums (wake 

 robin, the large white, the nodding and the painted one), 

 violets (purple, white and yellow), the first filling many 

 small tubs. Strange as it may appear, these were several 

 tunes taken for roses bj^ the children. Azalea, rock and 

 moss pink, columbine, various cresses, baneberry with its 

 odor of rhubarb, dandelion, bluets, celandine, rue and true 

 anemones, spring beaut}-, early everlasting, cinquefoil, the 

 sessile and perfoliate bellwort, wild ginger, sweet cicel^', 

 several of the buttercups, white, pink and yellow clovers, 

 wood betony, Solomon's seal of unusual size with large 

 green tipped bells, saxifrage, golden ragwort, Maj^apple, 

 and golden parsnip, false Solomon seal, Indian cucumber, 

 pink corydalis, blue cohosh, robin's plantain, wild gera- 



