176 



WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 



Yellow Lady's-slipper and the other the Small 

 Yellow Lady's-slipper. Both are wonderfully 

 beautiful and have much the same contrivances 

 for effecting cross-pollination that the Moccasin- 



tiower has. Apparently 

 they are chiefly poUenized 

 by small bees. 



R x\ M ' s-H E A D Lady's- 

 slipper. Another Lady's- 

 slipper is the curious 

 Ram's-head species, which 

 is one of the rarest and 

 most interesting of the 

 group. It seems to be less 

 known than any of the 

 others and has been seen 

 in its native haunts by 

 very few people. ''I 

 strongly suspect," writes 

 Mr. Baldwin, in his inter- 

 esting Orchids of N e w 

 England, "that some elf, 

 having been refused a 

 night's lodging in the cradle of the Pink Lady's- 

 slipper and faring no better on application to a 

 Yellow Lady's-slipper, originated the pert little 

 Ram's-head as a caricature of both." 



Other members of the beautiful family of 

 Orchids also bloom in early summer. In bogs 



YELLOW lady's-slipper 



