iio White to Green and Brown Flowers 



bracts of the narrow sparsely-flowered spike. The flowers 

 are small, greenish-yellow, and have a short spur. 



Habenaria orbiculata, or Round-leaved Rein Orchis, may 

 readily be recognized by its two very large glistening orbicu- 

 lar leaves that spread out flat upon the ground, and which 

 are green and shining above and quite silvery beneath. 

 The large greenish- white flowers of this handsome plant 

 grow in a loose raceme on the slender scape-like stems, and 

 have a short rounded upper sepal and spreading lateral ones, 

 the entire obtuse white lip being longer than the petals. 



HOODED LADIES' TRESSES 



Spiranthcs Romanzoffiana. Orchid Family 



Root tuberous. Stems: glabrous, leafy below, bracted above. 

 Leaves: oblong-lanceolate. Flowers: spike dense, in three rows, con- 

 spicuously bracted ; perianth white, the petals and sepals all connivant, 

 lip recurved, gvate-oblong, contracted below the narrower wavy-crenu- 

 late summit. 



This is the last orchid of the season, found chiefly in wet 

 marshy places, just when the power of the summer sun 

 begins to wane. It is a beautiful fragrant flower, growing 

 in dense snowy spikes, and has long narrow leaves. Con- 

 sidering that orchids are reckoned as amongst the rarest 

 and richest treasures of Nature, it is strange how many 

 species of them grow wild in the mountains. Of course 

 they are all terrestrial ones; we have none of the kinds 

 which grow on trees and develop false bulbs. 



STOUT RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN 



Epipactis dccipiens. Orchid Family 



Stems: scape glandular pubescent. Leaves: blotched with white, 

 ovate. Flowers: galea concave, ovate, with a short, spreading, re- 

 curved tip; anther ovate, pointed on the base of the stigma into a 

 gland-bearing awl-shaped beak, 



