NATIVE WILD FLOWERS 
closely. The scape rises from between the two large oval 
leaves, which lie horizontally on the mosses amidst which 
the plant grows. This species is only one-flowered. 
A time will come when these rare productions of our soil 
will disappear from among us, to be found only in those 
waste and desolate places where the foot of civilized man 
can hardly penetrate; where the flowers of the wilderness. 
flourish, bloom and decay unseen save by the all-seeing eye 
of Him who adorns the lonely places of the earth, filling 
them with beauty and fragrance. 
For whom are these solitary objects of beauty reserved? 
Shall we say, with Milton: 
‘‘ Thousands of unseen beings walk this earth, 
Both while we wake and while we sleep— 
And think, though man were none, 
That earth would want spectators, God want praise?” 
YELLOW LaDy’s SLIPPERS.—Cypripedium parviflorum 
(Salisb.) and Cypripedium pubescens (Willd.). 
«* And golden slippers meet for fairies’ feet.” 
Of the golden-flowered Moccasin flowers we boast of two. 
very beautiful species, C. pubescens (Hairy Moccasin 
flower) and C. parviflorwm (Lesser-flowered Moccasin 
flower). The larger plant is the more showy; the smaller 
the more graceful and with a delicate fragrance which is 
not so strong in the larger flower. The long spirally 
twisted petals and sepals, of a purplish brown color some- 
times tinted and veined with red, give this smaller flower 
a very elegant appearance, though the rich golden hue of 
the larger is more striking to the eye. 
C. parviflorum affects the moist soil of wet grassy 
meadows and swamps, while the larger plant loves the 
open plain lands among shrubs and tall grasses. In the 
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