54 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
New Hampshire. <Arethusa bulbosa chooses the open cran- 
berry swamp or the scanty shade of tamaracks. Gray calls it 
rather scarce or local, but as at Litchfield, Conn., and near 
Andover, Mass., where hundreds have been gathered at a time, 
it is wont to be abundant in its pet localities, and one is justi- 
_fied in hunting for it anywhere. Its range in the Eastern 
United States is from “ North Carolina to Wisconsin and north- 
wards,” and the unsentimental Hooker states that the bulbs, 
with us, “are used to stimulate indolent tumors, and as a cure 
for toothache.” 
The Arethusa is sometimes very 
fragrant, as Chapman, Goodale, and 
Burroughs in Pepacton, testify, and I 
regret that it has never been my for- 
tune to find a flower possessing that 
attraction. White varieties have been 
reported from Plymouth and other 
places in Massachusetts, but such in- 
stances are said to be very rare in the 
Fic. 14. 
1. Side view of column of Are- case of this Orchid. 
thusa. Sz, stigma. . ‘ 
2 and 3. Front views of anther. Plymouth has. also furnished two 
(From Gray’s Botanical Text Book.) ; 
\icaaaniuaal ax Avettrcas. abnormal specimens.* ‘One had a 
two-flowered scape, the flowers complete’ and united at the 
base: the other had the flowers, which were both incom. 
plete, united throughout nearly the whole length.” And even 
these are less worthy of record than the oddity discovered 
at New Haven, Conn., by Mr. H. M. Denslow, where “two dis- 
tinct scapes sprang from the same bulb; one bearing the usual 
single flower, the other, two.” The genus Arethusa contains 
but two other known species, natives respectively of Japan and 
Guatemala, and in this genus, to quote Gray, “the lanceolate 
sepals and petals, united at the base, ascend and arch over the 
* See Bibliography. 
