194 THROUGH GLADE AND MEAD. 
and the mountain-ash, one of our most ornamental 
trees, and a small running blackberry, representatives 
of our thirty-six or thirty-seven species. 
By roadsides the whiteweed now begins to be 
abundant, and on the edge of swamps the cat-tail flag 
is blooming. In the low meadows, especially on the 
edges of ditches, the poison hemlock opens its small 
white flowers, under the shade, it may be, of the elder 
or the poison dogwood. There are three bright-colored 
orchids in the list, the little Pogonia, the Calopogon and 
the larger, more majestic Habenaria, the latter being one 
of our handsomest species, and well upholding the repu- 
tation of the order for novelty and beauty. The grasses 
and sedges play a larger part in filling the landscape, 
especially those species not valued for forage. Where- 
ever moisture is, there these are abundant. Without 
them the early summer landscape would lose an inde- 
finable and, perhaps, unrecognized charm. 
