PINK 



birds along a crumbling log." While I recall a mountain lake 

 where the steep cliffs rise from the water's edge, here and there, 

 on a tiny shelf strewn with pine-needles, can be seen a pair of 

 large veiny leaves, above which, in early June, the pink balloon- 

 like blossom floats from its slender scape. 



Calopogon pulchellus. Orchis Family (p. 17). 



Scape. Rising about one foot from a small solid bulb. Leaf. Linear, 

 grass-like. Flowers. Two to six on each scape, purple-pink, about one 

 inch broad, the lip as if hinged at its insertion, bearded toward the summit 

 with white, yellow, and purple hairs. The peculiarity of this orchid is that 

 the ovary is not twisted, and consequently the lip is on the upper instead of 

 the lower side of the flower. 



One may hope to find these bright flowers growing side by 

 side with the glistening sundew in the rich bogs of early sum- 

 mer. Mr. Baldwin assigns still another constant companion to 

 the Calopogon, an orchid which staggers under the terrifying 

 title of Pogonia ophioglossoides. The generic name of Calopogon 

 is from two Greek words signifying beautiful beard and has 

 reference to the delicately bearded lip. 



PINK AZALEA. WILD HONEYSUCKLE. PINXTER FLOWER. 

 SWAMP PINK. 



Rhododendron nudiflorum. Heath Family. 



A shrub from two to six feet high. Leaves. Narrowly oblong, downy 

 underneath, usually appearing somewhat later than the flowers. Flowers. 

 Pink, clustered. Calyx. Minute. Corolla. Funnel-shaped, with five 

 long recurved lobes. Stamens. Five or ten, long, protruding noticeably. 

 Pistil. One, long, protruding. 



Our May swamps and moist woods are made rosy by masses 

 of the pink azalea which is often known as the wild honey- 

 suckle, although not even a member of the Honeysuckle family. 

 It is in the height of its beauty before the blooming of the laurel, 

 and heralds the still lovelier pageant which is even then in rapid 

 course of preparation. 



In the last century the name of Mayflower was given to the 



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