WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE 
is found from Newfoundland to British Columbia, 
Virginia, Kansas and Colorado. 
SMALLER PURPLE FRINGED ORCHIS 
Habenaria psycides. Orchid Family. 
This very pretty and rather slender-stemmed plant 
is generally smaller than the Large Purple Fringed 
Orchis and grows from one to three feet high, in wet 
woods, swamps and meadows, where it unfolds its 
fragrant, shorter-fringed lilac blossoms, during July 
and August. The smooth, angular, purple-stained 
stalk bears a few thin, tough and pointed-oval or 
lance-shaped leaves which are clasping and _alter- 
nating. The flowers and their arrangement are quite 
similar to the following species. The petals are toothed, 
however, and the three-parted, fan-shaped divisions 
of the lip are not so deeply fringed, while the slender 
spur is morecurved. Altogether this Orchid resembles 
its beautiful larger and earlier-blossoming sister so 
closely that it is often confused with it. Happily, the 
Smaller Purple Fringed species is very common and 
more easily found. It ranges from Newfoundland to 
Minnesota, and south to North Carolina and Indiana. 
LARGE PURPLE FRINGED ORCHIS 
Habenaria fimbriata. Orchid Family. 
This magnificent Orchid grows from one to five feet 
high, in rich, wet woods and meadows, from June to 
August. It is the largest and handsomest of its genus, 
and is a prize that is well worth the wet feet and tem- 
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