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larly, standing horizontal to it, and making an evenly 

 flowered wand. The sepals and petals are broad at the 

 base and curved together to form the little hood that gives the 

 species its common name. The thin, transparent, veiny lip 

 is oblong, and contracted near the base without any thickened 

 protuberances. 



The Hooded Lady's-Tresses has a sweet fragrance of 

 violets, and is so like the Nodding Lady's-Tresses that one 

 is deceived into thinking that one has found this more 

 northern species, when it is in reality the commoner Nodding 

 Lady's-Tresses. 



The time of flowering is characteristic, however; July 

 and August are the months for the Hooded, and the late 

 autumn for the Nodding Lady's-Tresses. 



It has travelled widely, for it is found in bogs through 

 Maine and Canada, to Lake Superior and across the con- 

 tinent, where it ranges from Unalaska south to California and 

 Colorado. It even climbs mountains to the height of six 

 and eight thousand feet. But though it is found in so many 

 stations with us, it is a rarity in Europe, appearing only 

 in a few bogs in Cork County, Ireland, where Grant Allen 

 says, "The ardour of modern botanists is fast putting an 

 €nd to its brief career." 



How did it get there .? Professor Gray thought that these 

 were merely the last lingering stations of a species once 

 common to both continents, while Grant Allen thinks that 

 the seeds were "carried across the ocean by chance at some 

 remote period." But it could hardly be that this wild, 



