red WILD FLOWERS 



flowers may be found, without the usual spotting on 

 the lip, petals or sepals. 



EARLY CORAL-ROOT 



Corallorrhiza trifida. Orchid Family. 



This leafless Orchid is remarkable for its lack of 

 chlorophyll, or green colouring matter, and for its 

 curious mass of pinkish brown coral-like roots which 

 absorb nourishment from other roots and refuse vege- 

 table matter. On this account they are known as 

 parasites or saprophytes. The slender flower stalk 

 grows a foot or less in height, and bears two or three 

 closely sheathing, purplish scales. The minute flowers 

 resemble dried seed cases at first sight. They are a dull, 

 dingy purple, and from three to twelve hang or droop 

 from the stalk in a loose, terminal spike-like arrange- 

 ment. They are nearly spurless, and the whitish 

 lip, which is shorter than the quarter-inch sepals and 

 petals, is toothed at the base, and slightly notched at the 

 apex. This inconspicuous species is found during 

 May and June, preferably in wet, evergreen woods, 

 from Alaska to California, and eastward to Nova 

 Scotia; thence south to Minnesota, Ohio, New Jer- 

 sey, and along the mountains to Georgia. 



WILD GINGER, ASARABACCA. CANADA 

 SNAKEROOT 



Asarum canadense. Birthwort Family. 



How like the "babes in the wood" are the curious- 

 looking flowers of the Wild Ginger, as they lie closely 



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