WILD FLOWERS PINK 
North America. All of them are spurless, and 
their lips are highly coloured and bearded with 
bristly hairs. The familiar vanilla bean, which 
furnishes the popular flavouring extract, is the 
fruit of an Orchid belonging to this group. This 
Pogonia is found during June and July, from 
Canada to Florida and west to Kansas, also in Japan. 
GRASS-PINK. CALOPOGON 
Calopogon pulchéllus. Orchid Family. 
Contrary to most Orchids, this very beautiful, slen- 
der stemmed species has its lip, or most prom- 
inent petal, erected high over the flower instead of 
hanging from the lower side, as is usually the case. The 
slender, smooth, and naked stalk grows from twelve 
to eighteen inches in height, from a smooth, solid, . 
round bulb. The solitary, sheathing, bright green 
grass-like leaf is long and very narrow with parallel 
veins, and also rises from the bulb. From three to 
fifteen showy, sweet-scented spurless, and purplish 
pink flowers are borne in a loose, terminal spike. The 
pointed-oval sepals and petals are nearly alike, and 
are separated and spreading. The long, upright, 
white-spotted and pale-pink lip is heart or wedge- 
shaped at the summit and is hinged at its base. It 
has a beautiful, dense beard of long, yellow, orange, 
or rose coloured, club-shaped hairs, which appear 
like so many stamens. Below the pretty lip extends 
a long, slender, curving three-lobed, petal-like pistil. 
This delicate beauty is more or less common in low, 
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