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but also in the forests of Mexico and Japan. It is a near relative 

 of the dainty bluets or Quaker ladies, and has the same pecu- 

 liarity of dimorphous flowers (p. 232). 



GREEN ORCHIS. 



Habenaria virescens. 



RAGGED FRINGED ORCHIS. 



Habenaria lacera. Orchis Family (p. 17). 



Leaves. Oblong or lance-shaped. Flowers. Greenish or yellowish- 

 white, growing in a spike. 



These two orchids are found in wet boggy places during the 

 earlier summer, the green antedating the ragged fringed orchis 

 by a week or more. The lip of the ragged fringed is three- 

 parted, the divisions being deeply fringed, giving what is called 

 in Sweet's "British Flower-Garden" an " elegantly jagged ap- 

 pearance." The lip of the green orchis is furnished with a tooth 

 on each side and a strong protuberance in the middle. So far 

 as superficial beauty and conspicuousness are concerned these 

 flowers do scant justice to the brilliant family to which they be- 

 long, and equally excite the scornful exclamation, "You call 

 that an orchid ! ' ' when brought home for analysis or preserva- 

 tion. 



BUTTON-BUSH. 



Cephalanthus occidentalis. Madder Family. 



A shrub three to eight feet high. Leaves. Opposite or whorled in threes, 

 somewhat oblong and pointed. Flowers. Small, white, closely crowded in 

 round button-like heads. Calyx. Four-toothed. Corolla. Four-toothed. 

 Stamens. Four. Pistil. One, with a thread-like protruding style and 

 blunt stigma. 



This pretty shrub borders the streams and swamps throughout 

 the country. Its button-like flower -clusters appear in midsum- 

 mer. It belongs to the family of which the delicate bluet and 

 fragrant partridge vine are also members. Its flowers have a jas- 

 mine-like fragrance. 



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