WILD FLOWERS pink 



North America. All of them are spurless, and 

 their lips are highly coloured and bearded with 

 bristly hairs. The familiar vanilla bean, which 

 furnishes the popular flavouring extract, is the 

 fruit of an Orchid belonging to this group. This 

 Pogonia is found during June and July, from 

 Canada to Florida and west to Kansas, also in Japan. 



GRASS-PINK. CALOPOQON 



Calopogon pidcbellus. Orchid Family. 



Contrary to most Orchids, this very beautiful, slen- 

 der stemmed species has its lip, or most prom- 

 inent petal, erected high over the flower instead of 

 hanging from the lower side, as is usually the case. The 

 slender, smooth, and naked stalk grows from twelve 

 to eighteen inches in height, from a smooth, solid, 

 round bulb. The solitary, sheathing, bright green 

 grass- like leaf is long and very narrow with parallel 

 veins, and also rises from the bulb. From three to 

 fifteen showy, sweet-scented spurless, and purplish 

 pink flowers are borne in a loose, terminal spike. The 

 pointed-oval sepals and petals are nearly alike, and 

 are separated and spreading. The long, upright, 

 white-spotted and pale-pink lip is heart or wedge- 

 shaped at the summit and is hinged at its base. It 

 has a beautiful, dense beard of long, yellow, orange, 

 or rose coloured, club-shaped hairs, which appear 

 like so many stamens. Below the pretty lip extends 

 a long, slender, curving three-lobed, petal-like pistil. 

 This delicate beauty is more or less common in low, 



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