90 NATURE STUD\. 



curing the great end of orchid existence, cross-fertiliza- 

 tion, I will name certain species which should be specially 

 looked for, or which, if already known as resident in the 

 Merrimack basin in New Hampshre, should be reported 

 and added to the local flora. Let me also again emphasize 

 the importance of notes or accounts being accompanied 

 with specimens as vouchers. 



LIST OF LOCAL DIvSIDERATA. 



Cypripedium parviflorum, Smaller Yellow Lady-Slipper. 



Orchis spectabilis, Showy Orchis. (Already reported from Hol- 

 derness.) 



Habenaria bracteata. 

 " dilatata. 



" obtusata. 



Listeria cordata. 



Microstylus monophyllos. 



Goodyera ophioides, as differentiated from G. repens. 

 " tessellata " " " " 



Spiranthes (Gyrostachys> simplex. 



" " ochroleuca (a variety S. cernua?) 



" " plantaginea (latifolia.) 



" " Romanzoffiana. (Reported this season 



from Franklin.) 



There are a few other possibilities, but this list, I think, 

 includes all the probable finds. 



THE MUSKAI.I.UNGB. 



Whence and what are you, monster grim and great? 



Sometimes we think you are a " Syndicate," 



For if our quaint cartoonists be but just 



You have some features of the modern " Trust." 



A wide, ferocious and rapacious jaw, 



A vast, insatiate and expansive craw ; 



And, like the " Trust," your chief est aim and wish 



Was to combine in one all smaller fish, 



And all the lesser fry succumbed to fate. 



Whom yoii determined to consolidate. 



— Wilcox. 



