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Aragon’s Claw, 
Corallorhiza odontorhiza. Narurart Orpver: Orchidacee—Orchis Family. 
23N old woods, from Canada to Carolina and Kentucky, this 
singular plant may be found. It consists in a collection of 
small, fleshy tubers, connecting and branching like coral, 
whence it is called Coral root, which is a literal translation 
of its Greek botanical name; while odontorhiza in the same 
é : language signifies tooth root. It -has no leaves or verdant 
ao foliage, the flower stalk being fleshy, about a foot high, with a num- 
Nake ber of flowers in a long spike. The color of the blossom is brownish 
Gri green, with a white lip spotted with purple. It usually grows in old 
" ve woodlands throughout the northern and middle States. 
6 Danger. 
OOD I would now repay with greater good, 
Remain within —trust to thy household gods 
And to my word for safety, if thou dost 
As I now counsel — but if not, thou art lost! 
—Byron. 
PEAK, speak, let terror strike slaves mute, E that stands upon a slippery place 
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 
—Marston. —Shakespeare. 
HUS have I shun’d the fire for fear of burning; 
And drench’d me in the sea, where I am drown’d. 
—Shakespeare. 
UR dangers and delights are near allies; HE absent danger greater still appears, 
From the same stem the rose and prickle rise. Less fears he who is near the thing he fears. 
—Aleyn. —Daniel, 
HOU little know’st 
What he can brave, who, born and nurst 
In danger’s paths, has dared her worst! 
—Moore. 
OW I will unclasp a secret book, As full of peril and advent’rous spirit, 
And to your quick-conceiving discontents As to o’erwalk a current, roaring loud, 
Ill read you matter deep and dangerous; On the unsteadfast footing of a spear! 
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