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surprises, not exactly every clay, but so frof|ucntly, as no doubt 

 to justify my use of the above lines of Mrs. Talbot's, and the 

 further recording of my experiences with Calypso during the 

 year 1924. 



As most people will no (loul)t remember, the month of May 

 was anything but warm, in consequence of which. Calypso was 

 somewhat behind time in making its appearance, and it was not 

 until the 25th, that it could be said to l)e fully out, this being a 

 week behind the average time for the past six years. On the 

 l8th, I was fortunate in discovering a fourth station for the 

 species, containing nine plants, and again on the 22nd, a fifth 

 station of five plants, one of which was a lovely snow-white 

 example. I have already referred to the fact, that if Calypso 

 depended entirely upon its seeds for propagation, it would very 

 soon become extinct, which fact was again forcibly brought to 

 my notice, for out of fifty plants examined this season, three only 

 bore capsules, one of which will be seen in our plate Fig. No. i, 

 the capsule bearing the persistent perianth, together with 

 another capsule Fig. No. la, from one of the other two plants. 

 These were found on August 2, and at that date had dehisced 

 as can be seen. Figures Nos. 2 and 8, are interesting as showing 

 the development of two new buds, one on- each side of the old 

 tuber, in place of the usual single one. This producing of two 

 instead of the usual single bud, appears to be not uncommon, 

 several examples having come under my notice, one of which 

 has already been shown in my previous paper Fig. No. 3, and 

 the other will be touched upon later as Fig. No. 10 in the present 

 plate. We now come to Figures Nos. 3 and 4, probably the 

 most interesting of the whole series, and kindly sent me by my 

 friend Mr. L. M. Terrill of St. Lambert, Que., he not knowing 

 at the time, what was hidden aw^ay in the earth surrounding 

 these plants, which were intended I should transplant at Hatley. 

 They came from near Metis, on the northern shore of the Gaspe 

 Peninsula, and were collected on June 21, 1924, in somewhat 

 dry coniferous woods. Now Irmisch, "Beitrage Zur Biologic 

 und Morphologic der Orchideen," Leipzig, 1853, as I have pre- 

 viously mentioned has described the tuber as consisting of two 

 internodes, or sometimes of only one, below the leaf, and this 

 I have always found to be the case, until I examined the two 

 plants in question, which clearly have three internodes de- 



