CYNOGLOSSUM, 



oFFiciNALS Hound's Tongue 



ViRGiNicuM Wild Comfrey 



MoRisoNi Beggars' Lice 



CYPRIPEDIUM— ORCHIS, 



CANDiDUM Small White Slipper 



PUBRSCENS Large Yelloiv Slipper 



PARViPLORUM Small Yclloxv Slipper 



SPECTABiLE White and Pink Slipper 



ACAULE Rose-purple Slipper 



Orchids are the gypsies of the plant world, 

 being found in every country. They have a 

 geographical movement, a real traveling by 

 new tubes forming on the farther side of each 

 present plant. The flowers often showy, being 

 the only class of plants that show development. 

 Only a few are capable of self-fertilization. 

 They are distinguished from other flowers by a 

 twist in the ovary, having the upper petal 

 brought down, taking the place of the lower 

 petal. In the above species the lip is inflated 

 resembling a Lady's Slipper ; others take on 

 forms of insects. Some botanists claim these 

 changing forms are inherited, but later authori- 

 ties who have made orchids a study, show that 

 these modifications are associated with the 

 structure and habits of insects and their visits 

 to these flowers. The early Algonquins called 

 tliem "Indian's mawcahsin flower." Linnaeus 

 in 1740 named this group for Cypris the 

 "Divine Mother" of the Roman people. All 

 these species are visited by bumblebees carry- 

 ing the pollen on their backs 



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