PINK 



month, he finds them equally admirable at the approach of 

 << dewy eve." ** How beautiful the solid cylinders of the lamb- 

 kill now just before sunset ; small ten-sided rosy-crimson basins, 

 about two inches above the recurved, drooping, dry capsules of 

 last year, and sometimes those of the year before, two inches 

 lower. ' ' 



PALE LAUREL. 



Kalmia glaiica. Heath Family, 



A rather straggling shrub about one foot high. Leaves. — Evergreen; 

 opposite ; oblong ; with 7-evoliite margins and a white bloom beneath. 

 Flcnoers. — Pink, one inch broad, in terminal, few-flowered clusters. Calyx. 

 Five-parted. Cojvlla. — Five-lobed. Stainens. — Ten. Pistil. — One. 



The pale laurel is easily identified by its leaves, which are 

 noticeable for their revolute margins and for the white bloom on 

 their under sides. The pretty pink flowers which are due in 

 May or June may be found occasionally much later in cool north- 

 ern localities. The shrub is most at home in peat bogs and in 

 the mountains from Newfoundland to Pennsylvania. 



SHOWY LADY'S SLIPPER. 



Cypripedium spectabile. Orchis Family. 



Stems. — Downy; two feet high. Leaves. — Large; ovate; pointed; 

 plaited. Flowers. — Large; the three sepals and two lateral petals, white; 

 the lip white, pink in front, much inflated. 



My eager hunts for this, the most beautiful of our orchids, 

 have never been crowned with success.* But once I saw a fresh 

 cluster of these lovely flowers in a friend's house, and regaled 

 myself with their rich, stately beauty and delicious fragrance. 

 Strangely enough I find no mention of this latter quality either 

 in Gray or in Mr. Baldwin's work on orchids. 



Mr. Baldwin describes the lip of this flower as ''crimped, 

 shell-shaped, varying firom a rich pink-purple blotched with 



* Smce writing the above I have tracked it to its home. 



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