WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
borders of moist, open woods. The beautiful orange 
yellow flowers are closely clustered in a large, rounded, 
oblong, terminal spike, and are exceedingly handsome 
and very attractive as the tall, slender, leafy stalk 
sways its brilliant, fringy torch in the long grasses 
of late summer. It grows from twelve to thirty inches 
high, and its long, pointed, lance-shaped leaves pass 
suddenly into pointed, bract-like leaflets, as they 
approach the blossoms. The rather large, showy 
flowers have bluntly pointed, broad oval or almost 
circular sepals, two of which are ear-like and spread- 
ing, while the upper one extends forward, and is hood- 
like. The petals are much smaller, and generally 
toothed. The long, drooping, oblong lip is deeply 
cut into a fine fringe, and is prolonged into a very 
long, slender, curving spur. The buds resemble the 
golden balls of a miniature, drum-major’s baton. 
This magnificent Orchid is one of the most interesting 
of our early autumn wild flowers, and it fairly quickens 
the pulse to come suddenly upon it for the first time 
during the season. Personally, I always feel the same 
tingling sensation as that which I have experienced 
when finding for the first time, the nests of our rarest 
birds in remote recesses. The Greek name Habenaria 
signifies Rein Orchis. This group is characterized by 
its lofty stems and its plumy wands of many flowers. 
It contains about four hundred species which are 
distributed. throughout the world and of which about 
forty are found in North America. It also contains 
some of the larger plants of our native Orchids. The 
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