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species. ‘The lip is not fringed ; but it is cut-toothed in a way 
that gives it a very stiff, prim expression. In July and August 
we may expect to find it in bloom. 
WHITE-FRINGED ORCHIS. (Plate XXVJ.) 
Hlabenaria blepharig lotiis. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. White. Scentless. Northward to Minnesota, and July. 
zz New Jersey. 
Flowers ; crowded on a short, oblong spike and having slender spurs; the 
lower lip heavily fringed. Zeaves: alternate ; lanceolate; passing gradually 
into bracts; clasping at the base. 
It seems, sometimes, that we hardly know what to say about 
a flower. Not because it is uninteresting, but because it is so 
very lovely that our sensations concerning it are silent. It is 
so with the white orchis. When found in some cranberry bog 
or swamp they are generally growing in great profusion. There 
is a milk-white purity about the blooms, and their swaying fairy 
fringe makes them very beautiful. 
ff, ciliéris, or the yellow-fringed orchis (Plate XXVI), is not 
so frequently found as the white one. It is taller, and of a 
deep, rich orange in colour. The two resemble each other so 
closely that there has been a question whether they were not 
simply different colours of the same species, It is now be- 
lieved, however, that they are separate species. The yellow 
one is a little later in reaching the height of its bloom. 
As will be seen from the illustration, the fringe of both of 
these orchids is wider than the lip it edges. 
MOSS MiILKWORT. 
Poljgala cructata, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Milkwort. Pink or greenish. Scentless. Maine to Florida August. 
and westward. - 
Flowers: small; growing in close, short spikes at the ends of the branches. 
Leaves : opposite; whorled in fours; linear. Stems: long ; angled ; spreading. 
When a number of these low plants are found growing to- 
gether, they have a mossy, soft appearance that is very pretty. 
