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Ladys Slipper, 
Cypripedium pubescens. Narurar Order: Orchidaceae — Orchis Family. 
=ZOST of these plants delight in damp, marshy ground, revel- 
"a ing beside brooks, bending over springs, hiding in the 
“borders of woods, and sporting on the boundless 
F prairie; dancing to the music of the wind or the rippling 
/ water with as much grace and ease as Terpsichore herself. 
woods are very large, especially the above variety, which will 
hold at least two tablespoonfuls of fluid, and is of a bright yellow 
in color, with dark spots within the aperture. The shape is sim- 
ilar to the blossoms of the Calceolarias of the greenhouse — that 
is, like a pouch or bag. 
Fitkteness. 
HEY know how fickle common lovers are, 
Their oaths and vows are cautiously believed, 
, For few there are but have been once deceived. 
—Dryden. 
| Bie conquering tyrants you our breasts invade, NCONSTANT as the passing wind, 
Where you are pleased to ravage for a while: As winter’s dreary frost unkind; 
But soon you find new conquests out, and leave To fix her, ’twere a task as vain 
The ravag’d province ruinate and bare. To count the April drops of rain. 
— Otway. —Smollett. 
EPROVE me not that still I change 
With every changing hour, 
For glorious nature gives me leave 
In wave, and cloud, and flower. 
Yon soft, light cloud, at morning hour, So yield I to the deepening light 
Looked dark and full of tears: That dawns around my way; 
At noon it seemed a rosy flower — Because you linger with the night. 
Now gorgeous gold appears. Shall I my noon delay. 
—Frances S. Osgood. 
E vary from ourselves each day in mind, 
Nor know we in ourselves, ourselves to find. W—eath. 
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