2IO Pink to Red Flowers 



and mosses that cluster together in those damp shady places 

 that are the favourite haunts of this orchid. 

 When Mrs. Hemans wrote 



" There's not a flower but shows some touch. 

 In freckle, freck, or stain, 

 Of His unrivalled pencil," 



she must have had in mind the marvellous painted slipper of 

 the Calypso, for its delicate veinings in finely pencilled pat- 

 tern are surely the wonderful work of the Great Master- 

 hand. 



The name Calypso denotes that the plant is dedicated to 

 the ancient goddess of that name. 



SWAMP PERSICARIA 



Polygonum Muhlcnbergii. Buckwheat Family. 



An aquatic herb, perennial by long creeping or horizontal rootstocks. 

 Stems: erect, commonly simple, channelled, enlarged at the nodes. 

 Leaves: oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded or 

 cordate at the base, ocrese cylindric. Flowers: small, in a terminal 

 raceme, calyx rose-colour. Fruit: achenes lenticular, broadly obovoid, 

 very convex, black, smooth, shining. 



The dense rose-coloured spikes of the Swamp Persicaria 

 may frequently be seen rising above the surface of some 

 forest pool, or fringing its borders. As Emerson has so 

 aptly described it, 



" Rosy Polygonum, lake-margin's pride," 



is one of the prettiest aquatic plants amongst the mountains. 

 The stems are channeled and enlarged at the points from 

 which the leaves grow ; sometimes they float, and sometimes 

 they are immersed beneath the waters. The leaves are 

 long-shaped and smooth. 



