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The Small Round-Leaved Orchis {Habenaria Hooker- 



iana) * loo 



Colored 

 The Showy Orchis (Orchis spedadilis) * . . . .104 

 Showing the plant nearly natural size. 

 Colored 

 The Large Purple-Fringed Orchis {Habenaria grandifiord) no 

 From lithograph in Meehan's Native Flow- 

 ers and Ferns of the United States y 

 I : 1878. By permission. 

 Colored 

 The Blackberry Blossoms from Mount CEta, Pownal, 



Vermont* 112 



The Yellow Clinton ia (Clintonia borealis), Rattlesnake 



Brook Swamp, Mount CEta, Pownal, Vermont . .116 



" White, innocent twigs of apple " * 126 



The Woodman's Road through Rattlesnake Swamp, 



Mount CEta, Pownal, Vermont . . . , , 134 



The Beautiful Arethusa {Arethusa bulbosa) . . . i44 



Colored 

 The Rattlesnake Plantain {Peramium), a Group of Three 



Species Collected on Rattlesnake Ledge, Mount CEta, 



Pownal, Vermont 150 



The Snowy Dogwood Blossoms, from the Hills of Mosh- 



olu, New York* 158 



I. Indian Pipes {Monotropa uniflora) ; 2. Pine-Sap {Mono- 



tropa Hypopitys) 164 



The Snow-Plant of the Sierra Nevada Mountains {Sarcodes 



sanguined)"^ 166 



Motherless Baby Whippoorwills * 176 



A Colony of the Small Yellow Fragrant Moccasin-Flower 



{Cypripedium parviflorum) in the Glen of Comus, 



District Fourteen, Pownal, Vermont* . . .178 



Colored 

 The Mountain Laurel {Kahnia latifolid) . . . .184 

 The Gregor Rocks, Hoosac Valley, from Pownal Centre 



Road, Vermont* 188 



