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WILD r LOWER FAMILIES 



Yellow Lady's-slipper and the other the Small 

 Yellow Lady's-slipper. Both are wonderfully 

 beautiful and have much the same contrivances 

 for effecting cross-pollination that the Moccasin- 

 / liower has. Apparently 



they are chiefly pollenized 

 by small bees. 



R A M ' s-n E A D LADY'S- 

 SLIPPER. Another Lady's- 

 s 1 i p p e r is the curious 

 Ram's-head species, which 

 is one of the rarest and 

 m o s t interesting- of the 

 group. It seems to be less 

 known than any of the 

 others and has been seen 

 in its native h aunt s by 

 very few p e o p 1 e. "I 

 strongly suspect," writes 

 Mr. Baldwin, in his inter- 

 esting Orchids of N e w 

 England, "that some elf, 

 h a v i n g been refused a 

 night's lodging in the cradle of the Pink Lady's- 

 slipper and faring no better on application to a 

 Yellow Lady's-slipper, originated the pert little 

 Ram's-head as a caricature of both." 



Other members of the beautiful family of 

 Orchids also bloom in early summer. In bogs 



YELLOW LADV'S-SLIPPKR 



