WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 



yield a poisonous oil which sometimes irritates the skin. 

 This species ranges from Nova Scotia to Ontario, 

 and Minnesota, and south to Georgia. 



LARGE ROUND=LEAVED ORCHIS 



Habenana orbiculata. Orchid Family. 



A pair of exceedingly large, shining, circular leaves 

 with a silvery underside and lying flat upon the ground, 

 are pretty certain means of identifying this peculiar 

 Orchid. It frequents deep, rich woods, preferably 

 evergreen, which are carpeted with pine or hemlock 

 needles, where it raises its stout stalk a foot or two 

 high, and blossoms gaily during July and August. 

 From ten to twenty or more white flowers are loosely 

 clustered in a terminal spike. The short, upper sepal 

 is rounded, and the two narrower side ones are spread- 

 ing. Two petals are smaller, sharply pointed and 

 arching, while the long, narrow, and drooping white 

 one, which forms the pointed, curving lip, is prolonged 

 in a long, slender, curving spur. The great, opposite 

 spreading leaves are many-ribbed, and the stalk has 

 several small, alternating bracts or leaflets set along its 

 length. This Orchid is rather uncommon, and is found 

 in the hilly or mountainous regions, from the British 

 Possessions south to North Carolina and Minnesota. 



WHITE FRINGED ORCHIS 



Habenaria blepbari glottis. Orchid Family. 



This refined and elegant beauty raises her stately 

 white head above the surrounding grasses, and, after 



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