Midsummer 



ment which is owing to the non-twisting 

 of the ovary. The deep pink flowers, 

 with their spreading white, yellow, and 

 pink-bearded lips, are clustered near the 

 summit of a stem which is about a foot 

 high. The single leaf is long and narrow. 



In the same bog which yields the grass- 

 pinks in abundance, I find also the love- 

 ly rose - colored, violet - scented adder's 

 mouth, the long, uninteresting spikes of 

 the green orchis, and the white fragrant 

 wands of the northern white orchis. 

 From now till August a careful search of 

 any wet meadow may discover the closely 

 spiked, sweet - scented flowers of another 

 not infrequent member of the family, the 

 smaller of the purple- fringed orchises. 



In the dry woods we encounter con- 

 stantly a shrubby plant with rounded 

 clusters of small white flowers. This 

 is the New Jersey tea, or red-root; the 

 former name arising from the use made 

 of its leaves during the Revolution, the 

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