60 PLANTS GROWING IN MUD. 
SHOWY LADY’S SLIPPER. 
Cypripedium regine. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. White and pink. Fragrant. New England southward June, July. 
to North Carolina. 
Flowers: terminal; solitary. The sepals and petals pure white; the lip 
inflated, one and a half inches long, and shaded in front with pink and purple. 
Leaves: alternate; large; ovate; pointed; parallel-veined. Stem: erect; 
leafy ; downy. 
This shy and lovely orchid, which Dr. Gray regards as the 
most beautiful of the genus, is rather difficult to find; and 
although one of its haunts in some remote swamp is known, 
and the days numbered until the time has come to go eagerly 
forth and seek it, it is often sadly true that some one has been 
in advance and carried the blossom away. But those that are 
so fortunate as to be the first upon the scene, whether lovers of 
flowers or not, must delight in the possession of so sweet a 
nymph. C. hirsutum and C. acaule, page 120, are illustrated in 
plates xcill and xciv respectively. 
CALOPOGON. GRASS PINK. (Plate XX//7) 
Limodorum tuberosum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. Magenta pink. fragrant. Northeast to Florida June, July. 
and westward. 
Flowers : growing loosely in varying numbers on a long scape. The flower 
has a peculiar expression, as though it were upside down, owing to the ovary 
being untwisted ; and the lip remaining on the upper instead of the lower side 
of the blossom. The lip is most delicately bearded with white and yellow. 
Leaves: linear; grass-like ; nerved and sheathed near the base of the scape. 
Scape: rising erect from a bulb. 
We have no wild flower that is more patrician in its bearing 
than this handsome orchid. It suggests a high-bred individ- 
ual with a taste for the eccentric who calmly persists in wear- 
ing his beard upside down. But its colouring is so regal, and 
its beard so very beautiful that we cannot wonder at its not 
conforming to fashion ; which would certainly rob it of. much 
of its unique bearing. Neither has this whim been allowed to 
interfere in any way with the domestic arrangements of the 
flower. In most orchids the lower lip is brought under, so as 
