ORCHID-HUNTING 157 
can be met with from May to September. There is 
the beautiful golden whip-poor-will’s shoe, in two 
sizes (Cypripedium hirsutum, and Cypripedium parvi- 
florum), and those lovely nymphs, rose-purple Are- 
thusa (Arethusa bulbosa), and Calypso (Calypso bore- 
alis), with her purple blossom varied with pink and 
shading to yellow. 
One of the fascinations of orchid-hunting is the 
fact that you may suddenly light upon a strange 
orchid growing in a place which you have passed for 
years. Such a happening came to me the day when I 
first found the rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides). 
I was following a cow-path through the hard hack 
pastures which I had traveled perhaps a hundred 
times before. Suddenly, as I came to the slope of 
the upper pasture, growing in the wet bank of the 
deep-cut trail, my eye caught sight of a little flower 
of the purest rose-pink, the color of the peach-blos- 
som, with a deeply fringed drooping lip, the whole 
flower springing from a slender stem with oval, 
grass-like leaves. To me it had a fragrance like al- 
monds, although others have found in it the scent 
of sweet violets or of fresh raspberries. It is the 
pogonia family which includes the rarest of all of 
our orchids, the almost unknown smaller whorled 
pogonia (Pogonia affinis). Few indeed have been the 
botanists who have seen even a pressed specimen of 
this strange flower. 
Two weeks after I found the rose pogonia, I came 
again to visit her. To my astonishment and delight, 
by her side was growing another orchid, like some 
