6o PLANTS GROWING IN MUD. 



SHOWY LADY'S SUPPER. 



Cypripedium reglncB. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Orchis. White and pink. Fragrant. New England southward June^July. 



to North Carolina. 



Flowers : terminal ; solitary. The sepals and petals pure white ; the lip 

 inflated, one and a half inches long, and shaded in front with pink and purple. 

 Leaves : alternate ; large ; ovate ; pointed ; parallel-veined. Stem : erect ; 

 leafy ; downy. 



This shy and lovely orchid, which Dr. Gray regards as the 

 most beautiful of the genus, is rather difficult to find ; and 

 although one of its haunts in some remote swamp is known, 

 and the days numbered until the time has come to go eagerly 

 forth and seek it, it is often sadly true that some one has been 

 in advance and carried the blossom away. But those that are 

 so fortunate as to be the first upon the scene, whether lovers of 

 flowers or not, must delight in the possession of so sweet a 

 nymph. C. hirsutiwi and C. acaule, page 178, are illustrated in 

 plates xciii and xciv respectively. 



CALOPOGON. GRASS PINK. {Flaie XXIII.) 

 Lifjwdbrum tuberbsum^ 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Orchis. Magenta j>ink. Fragrant. Northeast to Florida J une^July. 



and "cvestward. 



Flowers : growing loosely in varying numbers on a long scape. The flower 

 has a peculiar expression, as though it were upside down, owing to the ovary 

 being untwisted ; and the lip remaining on the upper instead of the lower side 

 of the blossom. The lip is most delicately bearded with white and yellow. 

 Leaves : linear ; grass-like ; nerved and sheathed near the base of the scape. 

 Scape : rising erect from a bulb. 



We have no wild flower that is more patrician in its bearing 

 than this handsome orchid. It suggests a high-bred individ- 

 ual with a taste for the eccentric who calmly persists in wear- 

 ing his beard upside down. But its colouring is so regal, and 

 its beard so very beautiful that we cannot wonder at its not 

 conforming to fashion •, which would certainly rob it of much 

 of its unique bearing. Neither has this whim been allowed to 

 interfere in any way with the domestic arrangements of the 

 flower. In most orchids the lower lip is brought under, so as 



