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Arethtisa. 



Arethusa bulbosa. 



Arethusa is an elu- 

 sive nymph of whose 

 whereabouts one is never quite cer- 

 tain. As I have searched for and 

 found the flower only within the 

 White Mountain district, it may be 

 without my knowledge a familiar 

 object in other parts of the country. 

 But I know of only two wet, boggy 

 spots where it grows, and half the 

 time I do not succeed in capturing 

 it even in these locations. Certainly 

 it is one of the loveliest of our or- 

 chids, and is well worth a tiresome 

 search and inevitably wet feet. The 

 slim stem is about eight inches high, 

 and the pretty crimson-pink flower, 

 in profile, reminds one of a hand 

 with the five fingers held loosely 

 upward. The time of flowering is 

 late spring and early summer, but I 

 have found a specimen as late as the 

 1st of August. 



Fringea-Orchis, I should call the 

 Habenuriafimhriata. flowers of the fringcd-orchis ma- 

 genta pink, though undoubtedly they may present 

 some variations of this hue. It is a very beautiful 



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Arethusa. 



