ACCORDING TO SEASON 



though I had only begun to revel in the grace of 

 the grass-pinks and adder's mouths, when a few 

 days of storm intervened, and, on my next visit, 

 The flight grass-pinks and adder's mouths had vanished, 

 of summer w ^ the exception of here and there some be- 

 lated and reluctant blossom. From the mossy 

 hummocks the ragged-fringed orchis had almost 

 disappeared. Deep down among the grasses the 

 three-toothed orchis had blossomed and begun to 

 wither. The little flower-clusters of the sundew 

 had gone to seed, and only here and there could 

 be found a solitary yellow blossom of the bladder- 

 wort. Cranberries and blackberries had deep- 

 ened in color, wild-roses and elder-blossoms had 

 given place to hips and berries. 



But above the cinnamon-ferns glowed spots of 

 orange-red. From stately stems set round with 

 TurVs-cap slender leaves nodded the burning blossoms of 

 the Turk's -cap lily, its long recurved sepals 

 spotted with red-brown, its stamens tipped with 

 pollen-laden anthers which trembled with every 

 breath of wind. In all the neighborhood I have 

 not found the wood or meadow lily, but their 

 places are amply filled by these voluptuous-look- 

 ing creatures. 



The under-world among the sedges, which the 

 week before was radiant with bright-flowered 

 orchids, is now enlivened by the red stems, 



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