PINK 



the crested lark, and is said to refer to the crested seeds of this 

 genus. The specific title, glatica^ refers to the pallor of leaves 

 and stem. 



CALYPSO. 



Calypso borealis. Orchis Family. 



Leaf. — Single ; thin ; ovate or slightly heart-shaped ; from a solid bulb. 

 Flower. — Variegated pink and yellow ; lip sac-shaped and inflated; woolly, 

 hairy inside. 



Gray calls this '' a little bog-herb, ... a very local and 

 beautiful plant." I have seen the Calypso but once,* and that 

 once in the city, where it was brought to me by one who had 

 been so fortunate as to know it in all the beauty of its home 

 environment. But we need never regret that some of the love- 

 liest flowers are still to be discovered for the first time. The an- 

 ticipation of such discoveries only lends a keener zest to the ap- 

 proach of spring, the season that brings so much of delight and 

 actual excitement to the flower-lover. 



Mr. Baldwin, it seems to me, is the prophet of the Calypso. 

 He celebrates her beauty in eloquent pages. He says it is 

 abundant in Oregon and the Northwest, but so rare in New Eng- 

 land that we can be well acquainted with its flora and yet never 

 have seen it. Yet he tells us that Professor Scribner came on a 

 place in Maine, " not a foot square, containing over fifty plants 

 in bloom." 



And here is Mr. Baldwin's own description of the flower's 

 home : 



'' Even when her sanctuary is discovered Calypso does not 

 always reveal herself. The ground and the fallen tree-trunks are 

 thickly padded with moss and embroidered with trailing vines of 

 snowberry and Linnaea; painted trilliums dot with their white 

 stars the shadows lying under the tangled fragrant branches, the 

 silence of the forest, disturbed only by the chirr of a squirrel or 



* Since writing the above I have found the Calypso growing abundantly 

 en the beautiful slopes of the Canadian Rockies. 



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