WHITE AND GREENISH WILD FLOWERS 
white, corduroy panties. Perhaps, one night dur- 
ing the springtime, they were caught in an April 
shower and their pretty white panties became soiled, 
and perhaps their mammas washed them, and hung 
them out to dry on a stem, and perhaps they grew 
fast to the stem — who knows? Surely the dainty and 
curiously constructed flowers of the Dutchman’s 
Breeches would cause one to think so when he first 
saw them. The finely ribbed, white, yellow-tipped 
flowers consist of two upright, hollow, flattened and 
tapered spurs, widely separated at the tips, like a 
pair of horns, and joined toward the base, forming 
a baggy, heart-shaped pouch — for all the world like 
a miniature pair of inverted pantaloons, which were 
so becoming to the dear, good old ancestors of our 
own Pennsylvania Dutch. The two leg-like spurs 
are in reality petals, of which there are four. The 
other two are very small and narrow, and at right 
angles with the two longer ones and their hollowed 
tips are extended to form an arch over the slightly pro- 
truding, yellow stamens, of which there are six. The 
green style is very slender and is capped with a two- 
lobed stigma. The flowers are daintily suspended by 
a short stem, one after another, toward the tip of a 
slender and slightly curving, pale green stalk, which 
grows from five to ten inches high. The whitish, 
two-parted sepal is exceedingly small. The minutely 
crested flowers vary in number from one or two to 
seven, eight or nine. They are delicately textured, 
and of brief endurance. Frequently they are tinted 
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