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was to Andromeda. And alas, no Perseus coming to slay them, 
it droops its head, grows pale and dies. Its place is taken by 
an erect little capsule, which has quite the air of being able to 
take care of itself, 
CALYPSO. 
Calypso bulbosa. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchts. Pink, variegated Scentless. Northern latitudes. May. 
with yellow. 
Flowers: large; terminal; solitary; drooping. The sepals and petals 
narrow and pointed ; the lip inflated, sac-shaped; within woolly. Leaves: one 
only ; slightly roundish, cordate at base; ona petiole sheathing the stem; 
thin. Root: a bulb. 
It is when we least expect to find this lovely flower that 
some silken thread will probably guide us to its hiding place 
deep down in some mossy bog. It is very shy, very tremulous, 
and having feasted our eyes upon it we would fain creep away 
as softly as we came. 
ARETHUSA. 
Arethusa bulbosa. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. Rose pink. Fragrant. Maine to Virginia. May, June. 
Flowers : large; terminal ; solitary ; with two small scales underneath, The 
lip fringed, spotted with purple, and traversed by three white ridges. The 
other sepals and petals arching over the column. Leaves: one only; linear, 
appearing from the sheath of the scape after the flower. Scape: from a bulb; 
six to ten inches high. 
The beautiful nymph Arethusa was first wrapped in a cloud 
by Diana and then changed into a fountain that she might 
escape the river god, Alpheus, who had fallen in love with her, 
as, overheated by the chase, she bathed in a clear, flowing 
stream. It seems not improbable that her namesake, our 
lovely flower, may have been placed by some protecting power 
in the swamps as a safeguard against her admirers ; for surely 
no one could see the flower without loving it, and who loving 
it would have the hardihood to leave it upon its stem to be 
visited only by its butterfly sweethearts ? 
