222 AMONG THE WILD. FLOWERS. 
F[ypericum furnishes the species /7. elodes 
which vies with Dvosera in beautifying their 
wet spongy home. Comarum palustre shows 
also its dark reddish-purple flowers. ¢lece- 
brum verticillatum, Whorled Knot-grass, is 
found in Devon and Cornwall. Of the 
UMBELLIFER®, the peltate circular leaves of 
FTydvocotyle, Penny-wort, frequently lie scat- 
tered on the wet moss. The little umbels of 
the flower or seed will be easily found. 
Then we have Galum uliginosum, and the 
pretty Valeriana dioica, not uncommon ; also 
several of the Composit#, and of Orchids, 
Malaxis paludosa, Bog-Orchis, called also 
Marsh Tway-blade, only 3 to 5 inches high, 
with spikes of greenish flowers. There is 
another Bog-Orchis, Sturmza Leselit, with 
yellowish spike of flowers, 6 to 10 inches high 
which “forms a large ovate bulb at its base 
enclosed in the whitish sheaths of the decayed 
leaves” ; Hooker and Lindley give this as 
Liparts. 
Many of the water-loving plants may be 
also found in bogs, which, however, are not ex- 
clusively natives of them. 
