MOUNTAIN FLOWERS \oj 



yellowish-green, fairly large, and possess a broad lip with two 

 lobes at the delicate apex. 



The Twayblades present a strong contrast to the Coral- 

 root. They are conspicuously green and healthy of leaf. 



LADIES' TRESSES 



Spiraiitlics Roiiiaiizoffiana. Orchid Family 



Root tuberous. Stems: glabrous, leafy below, bracted above. Leaves: 

 oblong-lanceolate. Flowers: spike dense, in three rows, conspicuously 

 bracted ; perianth white, the petals and sepals all connivent, lip recurved, 

 ovate-oblong, contracted below the narrower wavy-crenulate summit. 



This is the last orchid of the season, found chiefly in wet 

 marshy places, just when the power of the summer sun begins 

 to wane. It is a beautiful fragrant flower, growing in dense 

 snowy spikes, and has long narrow leaves. Considering that 

 orchids are reckoned as amongst the rarest and richest treas- 

 ures of Nature, it is strange how many species of them grow 

 wild in the mountains. Of course they are all terrestrial ones ; 

 we have none of the kinds which grow on trees and develop 

 false bulbs. 



RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN 



Goodycra Afcnzicsii. Orchid Family 



Stems: scape glandular pubescent. Leaves: blotched with white, ovate. 

 Flowers: galea concave, ovate, with a short, spreading, recurved tip; 

 anther ovate, pointed on the base of the stigma into a gland-bearing awl- 

 shaped beak. 



This plant has a cluster of leaves at the base only; these 

 are covered with a network of white veins and frequently also 

 have white blotches on them. The flowers grow in a bracted 

 spike, are greenish-white, and have a very hairy stalk. 



Goodycra rcpcns, or Small Rattlesnake Plantain, has also 

 peculiar white-veined leaves, but in this species they grow up 

 the stalk as well as at its base. The whole i:)lant is smaller 

 than G. HfLiicicsii, and its insignificant flowers grow only on 



