STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE 
and wild grassy plain-lands, where it has little shade unless 
from the surrounding herbage. The plant is seldom more 
than twelve or eighteen inches in height, tapering from a 
broad base to a slender leafy point. The foliage is whitish 
or hoary gray, from a minute downy covering. These gray 
leaves are hastate, not arrow-shaped, pointed and lobed at 
the base; the lower leaves are on long footstalks, the upper 
ones diminished to mere bracts. The flowers are large 
pure white open bells, on long stalks—only two opening 
each -day. The stem of the plant is somewhat woody, 
slightly branching or simple, and forming a pyramid of 
slender apex, twining slightly and clasping the stalks of 
grasses and neighboring herbs. 
On the flowery Rice Lake plains I have seen this lovely 
flower mingling its hoary foliage and white fragile bells 
with the gay bracts of the Scarlet Cup and azure-blue spikes 
of the Wild Lupine, the Sweet Pyrola and Wild Rose,—and 
surely no garden ever shewed more glorious colors or more 
harmonious contrasts than this wilderness displayed. 
This pretty wild Convolvulus might be introduced into 
garden culture, where the soil is light, without any fear of 
its becoming a troublesome weed like the common Bind- 
weed, or the double-blossomed variety, which should only be 
kept as plants for a trellis or as bower-climbers. 
GRASS-PINK CALOPOGON—Calopogon pulchellus (R. Br.). 
Our open springy poplar flats, partially shaded by aspen 
shrubs and wild grasses, afford shelter to many a rare 
Orchid. The warm rays of the sun, acting on the moist 
boggy soil, quicken into life and loveliness one of the most 
ornamental of our orchidaceous plants. In the month of 
July we find that very beautiful flower, the Grass-pink, or 
Calopogon. Its flowers are little known, and may indeed 
truly be said to waste their sweetness on the desert air. 
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