Illustrations 



The photographs in this list marked thus * were taken by 

 Miss Katherine Lewers, the others by the author. The color- 

 ing is the work of the author. Of the fifteen genera of Or- 

 chidacece in New England, all save Listera, Tipularia, and 

 Apledrum are represented in these illustrations. 



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The Pink Moccasin-Flower {Cypripedium acaule) * 



Colored Frontispiece 



The I/arge Yellow Moccasin-Flower (Cypripedium hir- 



sutum) * 4 



Colored 

 The Botanizing Can, or Vasculum, Showing the White- 



Petaled Lady's Slipper and Maiden-Hair Fern * . 8 



Mount Greylock's Brotherhood— the Berkshire Highlands, 



from Mount CEta, Bennington County, Vermont, 



Showing the College Town of Williamstown in the 



Valley * lo 



The Western Gateway of Hoosac Mountain, the Entrance 



to Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Massachusetts . 14 

 Source of photograph unknown. 

 Ball Brook, in the Swamp of Oracles, Pownal, Vermont * 18 

 The Showy Lady's Slipper — the Queen of the Indian 



Moccasin-Flowers {Cypripedium reg-inc?)* . . . 24 

 Colored 



The Fleur-de-L,is {Iris versicolor) * 28 



The Fountain of Arethusa, near the Bogs of Etchowog, 



Pownal, Vermont 30 



Round-Leaved Sundew {Drosera rotundifolid) ... 32 

 The Carnivorous Plants, commonly called Pitcher Plants, 



and Dumb Watches {Sarracenia purpurea) . . , 34 

 The Bogs of Etchowog, Showing the Dome in the Distance, 



Pownal, Vermont* 36 



