172 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 
and secluded woods where very few people ever 
find them, but this pink species is less exclusive 
in its choice of an abiding place. In pine woods, 
in beech and oak woods, in swamps and bogs— 
PINK LADY'S-SLIPPERS 
these are the places where it grows. On dry 
uplands or wet lowlands it seems equally at home, 
the two green leaves appearing above the brown 
pine needles or the sphagnum moss with equal 
ease, and bearing between them the stalk tipped 
with the curious bud that develops into the still 
