SAND DUNES AND SALT MAESHES 



vines take but an insignificant part. Clumps 

 of blue irises are beautiful in the spring in 

 their cranberry vine setting, and when, as 

 occasionally happens, they escape from their 

 environment and blossom in the white sand, 

 they look for all the world like a picture on 

 a Japanese screen. 



There are two lovely orchids which bloom 

 abundantly in the early summer in the bogs, 

 Pogonia, the bearded-one, with its pinkish 

 flowers generally single, and Calopogon, the 

 beautiful bearded-one, with its half dozen or 

 more clustered flowers, whose color, according 

 to Gray's Manual, is '^ magenta-crimson." 

 The very name orchid has an interest and 

 charm, but it is certainly deserved in the case 

 of these two dune-loving orchids, for they are 

 extremely beautiful. 



Another interesting bog-plant, with leaves 

 so divided that they suggest the royal fern, 

 one that is common on the southern seacoast 

 of the Labrador peninsula, is the Canadian 

 burnet. This blossoms in midsummer in long 

 cylindrical spikes of white flowers. A more 

 modest but most interesting inhabitant of the 

 bogs, one that grows abundantly in places, is 

 the sundew, which owes its name to the dew- 



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