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C. Pubesens and C. Parviflora, the yellow ladies’-slippers ; C. Acaule, 
the beautiful rose purple moccasin flower, and C. Spectabile, the 
showiest of all terrestrial orchids. 
Side by side with these grows the Ledum latifolium, a shrub of 
remarkable beauty, bearing tufts of snowy flowers and scarcely less 
attractive foliage, the upper surface of which is shining green and 
the under a sunlit color resembling buffed leather. 
July ushers in an entirely different floral aspect. Now the gor- 
geous masses of Asclepias tuberosa set aflame the hillsides and sunny 
uplands ; in the cooler glades of the wood the fragile wood-lily, 
Lilium Philadelphicum, lifts her golden chalice to the dews of heaven, 
while her elegant and more stately sister, Lilium superbum, poises 
her flaming candelabrum. 
August gives to the floral world the many varieties of sunflowers 
and cone-flowers, all ‘worthy of our appreciation and study—the 
splendid cardinal Lobelia, that ‘‘ red-coated sentry of the-wood,” in 
contrast with which we find, dressed in suit of blue, its stouter but 
less graceful neighbor, Lobelia Syphilitica. Farther on appear the 
snowy masses of Chelone glabra, turtle head. 
Across the threshold of the year now comes September, with 
her crown of gentians, royal blue, a fitting color for a plant with 
name of kingly origin. Gentius, who reigned 167 years B.C., was 
the last King of Ilyria. He provoked a war with the Romans, was 
defeated and taken in triumph to Rome. Suffering from malarial- 
fever, he was treated with an infusion of this herb, hence the name, 
Gentiana. 
Our local gentians are confined to two species, the beautiful 
fringed blue gentian, G. Crinita, and the closed blue gentian, G. 
Andrewosii ; a white form of this latter species grows plentifully in 
our locality. 
We must not forget to mention the humble Monotropa uniflora, 
well known under the common names of corpse plant and Indian 
pipe. This is a very strange and interesting citizen of the vegetable 
kingdom. Dependent for support, and with no specialized organs of 
distribution, it has established itself to a degree scarcely equalled by 
any other species of flowering plants. Notwithstanding its wide dis- 
tribution and existence under so many varied conditions of environ- 
