PINK WILD FLOWERS 
and North Dakota; and south to Georgia, Kentucky 
and Nebraska. It is not common. 
ROSE POGONIA. SNAKE-MOUTH 
Poginia opbioglossoides. Orchid Family. 
This, one of the prettiest of our more delicate little 
Orchids, is often found in company with the beautiful, 
deeper-hued Calopogon or Grass-pink, which blossoms 
at the same time in bogs, wet meadows, and swamps. 
The smooth, slender, grass-like stalk, springing from 
a fibrous root, grows from eight to fifteen inches high, 
and bears from one to three lance-shaped leaves. 
Usually there are but two erect leaves, one about half- 
way up the stalk, and a much smaller and strongly 
ribbed one at the top close to the blossom. Some- 
times a solitary, long-stemmed leaf rises directly from 
the root. The fragrant, pale, rose-pink flowers are 
rather large and slightly nodding. They are borne 
solitary, or occasionally in pairs, at the top of the stalk. 
The spreading, oval sepals and narrower petals are 
about equal in length and are separated. The droop- 
ing, spurless, spoon-shaped lip is deeply fringed and 
crested and is streaked with yellow and purple. Mr. 
Gibson noted that this Orchid had an odour of red 
raspberries. It is also one of the few Orchids having 
free dusty pollen. Pogonia is from the Greek, meaning 
a beard, and refers to the beautifully tufted, hairy 
crest in the middle of the fancy lip. There are 
thirty species of Pogonia widely distributed over the 
world, and only five of this number are found in 
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