WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
and bract-like. The roots are slender and fleshy. 
The tiny, waxy white or yellowish flowers are fragrant 
and spurless. And together with short, semi-circular 
bracts, they are gathered into crowded rows of threes 
which, with a peculiar, ropy, spiral growth, form a re- 
markably twisted terminal spike. The two side sepals are 
free and spreading, while the upper one forms an arch 
with the petals. The oblong lip has a broad, rounded, 
crinkle-edged apex. This pretty little Orchid blossoms 
abundantly from August to October, and ranges 
from Florida to Nova Scotia, and west to Ontario, 
Minnesota, South Dakota, New Mexico, and Louisiana. 
DOWNY RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN 
Epipactis pubéscens. Orchid Family. 
The familiar rosettes of white-veined, blue-green 
foliage of this common Orchid are spread close to the 
ground, in dry and usually evergreen woods, where 
they occur in distinct patches, and are really more 
decorative than their flowers, which blossom dur- 
ing July and August. The short flower stalk is cov- 
ered with thick, hairy down, and rises from the centre 
of the leaves some six to twenty inches. It bears 
several small, alternating, and clasping - scale-like 
leaflets. The thick, pointed-oval, evergreen leaves 
are softly downy, the prominent ribs and veins are 
white, and the edges are wavy. The thick, fleshy root 
is creeping in habit. The small, pouched, greenish 
white flowers are crowded into a slender, terminal, 
clubbed spike, and are attended with short, pointed, 
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