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swampy ground back of Green's field. In 1906, there was a fine 

 patch of over a hundred plants, growing pretty closely together, 

 and gleaming out of the tall ferns and sedges like a small bonfire. 

 The plants were also quite common in Hawk's marsh but usually 

 more scattered. They grow in the sphagnum, intermingled with 

 ferns and sedges. Gray regarded this as "our most handsome 

 species". In our opinion it does not excel, even if it equals, the 

 splendid white flowered B. leucophaea. In 1908 and 1909 the yel- 

 low fringed orchis patches were still existing both by the Lost Lake 

 outlet and in Hawk's marsh, but in the latter year the patch by the 

 outlet had diminished somewhat in size. A plant was also found 

 in the birch swamp. 



223. RAGGED OR GREEN-FRINGED ORCHIS 



"■ BLEPHARIGLOTTIS LACERA (Michx.) Farwell 



A few plants grew in the marshy bay east of the Lost Lake out- 

 let and back of Green's in the same region where the yellow fringed- 

 orchis was so abundant. It is, on the whole, rather rare in the 

 neighborhood of the lake. It is rather common along the railroad 

 near Plymouth, Ind. 



Although not so showy as the preceding species the racemes of 

 whitish green, peculiarly fringed blossoms of this orchid have a 

 charm of their own, their pose and shape reminding one of a 

 swarm of greenish insects about to alight. 



224. GRASS-PINK; CALOPOGON 



LIMODORUM TUBEROSUM L. 



This very pretty orchid was rather abundant in a marshy 

 stretch along the railroad near the birch swamp. The attractive 

 purplish pink blossoms scattered through the grasses, showed up 

 finely on July 4, 1901. It is quite abundant along the railroads 

 at Plymouth, Ind. 



225. NODDING LADIES'-TRESSES 



IRIDIUM CERNUUM (L.) House 



The most common and most hardy of our orchids, usually pretty 

 abundant in sandy moist places, among grass. It also grows in 

 mucky or peaty soils. It was common in the low ground near 

 the outlet where the yellow fringed orchis abounds. It was also 

 found in Walley's woods, and in the tamaracks west of the lake. 

 There was a fine patch in the marshy natural ampitheater by Lake- 

 view Hotel. It reaches its greatest abundance, however, along both 



