18 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
beauty than the yellow species and we may fancy of a more 
sensitive and retiring disposition. It is shy of approaching the 
haunts of men but rather hides in the seclusion of some deep 
wood or forest, where its loveliness is seen by the croning bee 
and the soughing wind only. 
As the lip resembles a moccasin much more than a slipper, it 
would seem that while we claim the yellow one for our own, we 
should resign this orchis to the people that have loved it so 
well. Like the Indian, it is becoming rarer every year, and un- 
less we respect its love of freedom and cease from carelessly 
picking it, we shall soon find that like him it has vanished from 
us forever. 
SHOWY ORCHIS. 
Orchis spectabilis. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. Purplish pink. Fragrant. New York to Georgia April, May. 
and westward. 
Flowers : growing loosely in a terminal spike. The sepals and petals united 
and forming a sort of crimson purple hood. The lip white and projecting 
backward into a short spur. eaves: two; large, from the base of the scape; 
ovate ; shiny. 
When the air is soft and sweet in the early spring woods and, 
looking first to one side and then to the other, we follow some 
shaded pathway ; it may be that we shall find a number of the 
showy orchids. They are not, however, showy as the name 
would have us believe but very quaint and pretty. The 
blossoms have queer little expressive faces, and we feel like 
making friends with them at once and not standing on cere- 
mony as would be most natural with many of the more preten- 
tious members of their family. : 
GREAT GREEN ORCHIS. 
Habenaria orbiculata. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Orchis. Green and white. Scentless. Mostly north. July. 
Flowers: clustered loosely in a long spike. Corol/a: two-lipped; the_ lip 
white, almost linear, drooping and without a fringe; the spur one and a half 

