WHITE AND GREENISH , WILD FLOWERS 
yield a poisonous oil which sometimes irritates the skin. 
This species ranges from Nova Scotia to Ontario, 
and Minnesota, and south to Georgia. 
LARGE ROUND-LEAVED ORCHIS 
Habenaria orbiculata. Orchid Family. 
A pair of exceedingly large, shining, circular leaves 
with a silvery underside and lying flat upon the ground, 
are pretty certain means of identifying this peculiar 
Orchid. It frequents deep, rich woods, preferably 
evergreen, which are carpeted with pine or hemlock 
needles, where it raises its stout stalk a foot or two 
high, and blossoms gaily during July and August. 
From ten to twenty or more white flowers are loosely 
clustered in a terminal spike. The short, upper sepal 
is rounded, and the two narrower side ones are spread- 
ing. Two petals are smaller, sharply pointed and 
arching, while the long, narrow, and drooping white 
one, which forms the pointed, curving lip, is prolonged 
in a long, slender, curving spur. The great, opposite 
spreading leaves are many-ribbed, and the stalk has 
several small, alternating bracts or leaflets set along its 
Jength. This Orchid is rather uncommon, and is found 
in the hilly or mountainous regions, from the British 
Possessions south to North Carolina and Minnesota. 
WHITE FRINGED ORCHIS 
Habenaria blepharigléttis. Orchid Family. 
This refined and elegant beauty raises her stately 
white head above the surrounding grasses, and, after 
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