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WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 



and secluded woods where very few people ever 

 find them, but this pink species is less exclusive 

 in its choice of an abiding place. In pine woods, 

 in beech and oak woods, in sw^amps and bogs — 



PINK LADVS-SLIPPERS 



these are the places where it grows. On dry 

 uplands or wet lowlands it seems equally at home, 

 the two green leaves appearing above the brown 

 pine needles or the sphagnum moss with equal 

 ease, and bearing between them the stalk tipped 

 with the curious bud that develops into the still 



