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was to Andromeda. And alas, no Perseus coming to slay them, 

 it droops its head, grows pale and dies. Its place is taken by 

 an erect little capsule, which has quite the air of being able to 

 take care of itself. 



CALYPSO. 



Caljpso bulbbsa. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Orchis. Pinky variegated Scentless. Northern latitudes. May. 



•with yellow. 



Flowers: large; terminal; solitary; drooping. The sepals and petals 

 narrow and pointed; the lip inflated, sac-shaped; within woolly. Leaves: one 

 only ; slightly roundish, cordate at base ; on a petiole sheathing the stem ; 

 thin. Root : a bulb. 



It is when we least expect to find this lovely flower that 

 some silken thread will probably guide us to its hiding place, 

 deep down in some mossy bog. It is very shy, very tremulous, 

 and having feasted our eyes upon it we would fain creep away 

 as softly as we came. 



ARETHUSA. 



Arethiisa bulbbsa. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Orchis. Rose pink. Fragrant. Maine to Virginia. May., June. 



Flowers : large; terminal ; solitary ; with two small scales underneath. The 

 lip fringed, spotted with purple, and traversed by three white ridges. ^ The 

 other sepals and petals arching over the column. Leaves: one only; linear, 

 appearing from the sheath of the scape after the flower. Scape : from a bulb ; 

 six to ten inches high. 



The beautiful nymph Arethusa was first wrapped in a cloud 

 by Diana and then changed into a fountain that she might 

 escape the river god, Alpheus, who had fallen in love with her, 

 as, overheated by the chase, she bathed in a clear, flowing 

 stream. It seems not improbable that her nan:esake, our 

 lovely flower, may have been placed by some protecting power 

 in the swamps as a safeguard against her admirers ; for surely 

 no one could see the flower without loving it, and who loving 

 it would have the hardihood to leave it upon its stem to be 

 visited only by its butterfly sweethearts ? 



