158 EVERYDAY ADVENTURES 
purple-pink butterfly which had alighted on a long 
swaying stem. It was no other than the beautiful 
grass-pink (Limodorum tuberosum), which blooms in 
July, while the pogonia comes out in late June. 
The grass-pink has from two to six blossoms on each 
stem, and the yellow lip is above instead of below the 
flower, as in the case of most orchids. Years later I 
was to find this orchid growing by scores in the pine- 
barrens. 
Last, but by no means least, is the great genus 
Habenaria — the exquisite fringed orchids. Purple, 
white, gold, green — they wear all these colors. He 
who has never seen either the large or the small 
purple fringed orchid growing in the June or July 
meadows, or the flaming yellow fringed orchid all 
orange and gold in the August meadows, has still 
much for which to live. 
It was with an orchid of this genus that I had my 
most recent adventure. I had traveled with the Bot- 
anist into the heart of the pine-barrens. There may 
be places where more flowers and rarer flowers and 
sweeter flowers grow than in these barrens, but if so, 
the Botanist and I have never found the spot. From 
the early spring, when the water freezes in the hollow 
leaves of the pitcher-plant, to the last gleam of the 
orange polygala in the late fall, we are always finding 
something rare and new. On that August day we 
followed a dim path that led through thickets of 
scrub-oak and sweet pepper-bush. By its side grew 
clumps of deer-grass, with its purple-pink petals and 
masses of orange-colored stamens. Sometimes the 
