GRASS PINKS FROM THE BORDER OF THE MARSH 

 Where all is motion and life and comradeship, wind swaying the grasses, bobolinks singing, bees 

 flying from flower to flower, grow the rose-purple grass pinks {Limodorum tuberosum). They are often 

 accompanied by one or both of two other small orchids, the rose pogonia and arethusa-all three too 

 easily uprooted from the moss. Each grass pink flower has a cup of pollen with a hidden hinge which 

 the bee swings open. The species seems to be an isolated record of a previous and more simple state of 

 the orchid family, where the lip was above in the flower and the seed pod not twisted; if it is this, a 

 intermediate forms have become extinct. These beautiful small orchids should be eliminated from all 

 lists of supply for botanical study in schools 



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