RED WILD FLOWERS 
flowers may be found, without the usual spotting on 
the lip, petals or sepals. 
EARLY CORAL-ROOT 
Corallorrbiza trifida. Orchid Family. 
This leafless Orchid is remarkable for its lack of 
chlorophyll, or green colouring matter, and for its 
curious mass of pinkish brown coral-like roots which 
absorb nourishment from other roots and refuse vege- 
table matter. On this account they are known as 
parasites or saprophytes. The slender flower stalk 
grows a foot or less in height, and bears two or three 
closely sheathing, purplish scales. The minute flowers 
resemble dried seed cases at first sight. They are a dull, 
dingy purple, and from three to twelve hang or droop 
from the stalk in a loose, terminal spike-like arrange- 
ment. ‘They are nearly spurless, and the whitish 
lip, which is shorter than the quarter-inch sepals and 
petals, is toothed at the base, and slightly notched at the 
apex. This inconspicuous species is found during 
May and June, preferably in wet, evergreen woods, 
from Alaska to California, and eastward to Nova 
Scotia; thence south to Minnesota, Ohio, New Jer. 
sey, and along the mountains to Georgia. 
WILD GINGER, ASARABACCA. CANADA 
SNAKEROOT 
Asarum canadénse. Birthwort Family. 
How like the “babes in the wood” are the curious- 
looking flowers of the Wild Ginger, as they lie closely 
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