I04 CALOPOGON PULCHELLUS. GRASS-PINK. 



The Calopogon rarely fails to produce perfect seed-vessels. Yet 

 it is very seldom that plants which depend on insects for their 

 supply of pollen, as these are supposed to do, and which are not 

 fertilized by their own pollen, produce seed from every flower ; 

 and it may be well, therefore, to note whether the insects are 

 more industrious in the case of this plant than they are in other 

 cases. 



Quite an interesting account of the introduction of our flower 

 to English gardens is given by Curtis in the " Botanical Maga- 

 zine " for 1 790, as follows : " For this rare plant I am indebted 

 to the laudable exertions of a late gardener of mine, James Smith, 

 who, in the spring of 1 78S, examining attentively the bog earth 

 which had been brought over with some plants of the Dioiiesa 

 muscipula, found several small, tooth-like, knobby roots, which, 

 being placed in pots of the same earth, and plunged in a tanpit 

 having a gentle heat, produced plants the ensuing summer, two 

 of which have flowered, and from the strongest of these our 

 figure was taken." 



The specimen from which our drawing was made grew in 

 Massachusetts, and was furnished to us by Mr. Jackson Dawson. 

 The flowers on it are not half the size of those from North 

 Carolina, figured in the " Botanical Magazine." 



The Grass-Pink is not only beautiful, as its botanical name 

 implies, but it is also sweet, and may serve as a text to those 

 who believe that beauty sometimes is more than " skin-deep." 

 It flowers in June and July, and is found in cold, peaty bogs all 

 the way across from Maine to Minnesota, southward through 

 Nebraska to Arkansas, but avoiding Kansas, and thence in a 

 southeasterly direction to Florida. It is very rare indeed in 

 Central and Western New York, and in many other places 

 within the limits named. 



Explanation of the Plate. — i. Root, showing old tuber of last year, which decays as 

 soon as the new one of the present year is fully formed. — 2. Outline plan of a flower, 

 enlarged. — 3. Side view of a flower. — 4. The incurved column, showing liow it is 

 winged at the ape.x. — 5. Scape, with flowers. 



