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The Small Round-Leaved Orchis {Habcnaria Hooker- 



iana) * loo 



Color'cd 

 The Show J Orchis {Orchis spcciadilis) * .... 104 

 Showing the plant nearly natural size. 

 Colored 

 The Large Purple-Fringed Orchis {Habcnaria _!^randiJlora) no 

 From lithograph in Meehan's Native Flow- 

 ers and Ferns of the United Stales, 

 I : 1878. By permission. 

 Colored 

 The Blackberry Blossoms from Mount CEta, Pownal, 



Vermont* 112 



The Yellow Clintonia (Clinlonia borealis). Rattlesnake 



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



" White, innocent twigs of apple " * 126 



The Woodman's Road through Rattlesnake Swamp, 



Mount CEta, Pownal, Vermont 134 



The Beautiful Arethusa {Arethiisa bulbosa) . . . 144 



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 {Mo7iotropa imijlora) ; 2, Pine-Sap {3fono- 



tropa Hypopitys) 164 



The Snow- Plant of the Sierra Nevada Mountains {Sarcodes 



sanguittea)* 166 



Motherless Baby Whippoorwills* 176 



A Colony of the Small Yellow Fragrant Moccasin-Flower 



{Cypripediuin parvijloricin) in the Glen of Comus, 



District Fourteen, Pownal, Vermont* . . . 178 



Colored 

 The Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) .... 184 

 The Gregor Rocks, Hoosac Valley, from Pownal Centre 



Road, Vermont* 188 



