88 NATURE STUDY. 



this season, and so full of moisture that it took two weeks 

 to dry specimens sufficiently to prepare them for the herba- 

 rium. As to G. repcns, that species is common to Europe, 

 Asia and America. It has recently been discovered that 

 most of our Goodyeras which have gone by that specific 

 name are not identical with it, and already two well-de- 

 fined species have been separated, G. ophiodes and G. tes- 

 salata, the former blooming in cold mossj^ woods from July 

 till September, the latter in woods in the month of August. 

 The plants are usually smaller and the leaves darker green 

 than those of G. pubesce^is. G. ophioides is described as 

 having a one-sided and G. tesselata a spiral spike. I am 

 not yet prepared to say to which of these newly named spe- 

 cies our local plants which are not G. pubcscens belong. 

 It will be in order for observers and collectors to make 

 careful notes and prepare good specimens with a view to 

 forwarding the settlement of the genus. 



Several of the orchids which are at their best in July, or 

 which begin to flower in that month, keep on blooming 

 through August, and even into September. The orchid 

 which may be called peculiar to August is the verj^ rare 

 Pogonia pendula {frianthophora) . This was so full}^ de- 

 scribed among the " symbiots " in Nature; Study, Vol. 

 II, No. lo, March, that I will not here enter into particu- 

 lars, It is a fairy flower, growing in leaf-mold, and par- 

 tially dependent for its subsistence upon the co-operation 

 of certain fungi. The popular name, "three birds," is 

 very appropriate, since usually about three of the dainty 

 flowers are produced oa a plant. I have found the species 

 only at Meredith, where it grows in a beech wood, in the 

 leaf-strewn hollows between the rocks, where an under- 

 ground rill runs down the shaded slope to the lake. 



There remains but one more genus, Spiranthes (Gyros- 

 tachys), " ladies' tresses," of which I can at present name 

 but two as resident in this vicinity, .S*. gracilis and cernua, 



