80 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
been dotted with water-lilies and spangled along its marshy 
edge with the leaves of the sun-dew, and here, side by side, 
grew the objects of our search, Calopogon pulchellus and Po- 
gonia ophtoglossoides, whose harsh, and to me always irritating 
names, seemed at that time peculiarly inharmonious. 
These Orchids may be styled inseparable, for there are few 
extensive bogs that do not afford both; and the more danger- 
ous the morass, the more untrustworthy the scow you have 
discovered on the shore of lake or creek, the more confident 
you may be that your prize is awaiting you—yJust out of reach. 
The genus Calopogon is represented in the Eastern United 
States by three or four species, but one of which favors New 
England, and this,, sometimes known as the 
Grass Pink, wears colors that one would not 
naturally select to go together. Nature has 
combined the white and yellow of the bearded 
lip and the purple-pink of the other parts with 
Fic. 24-—Frowsr or her usual boldness, but the result is not suf- 
C.ruLcHELLUs. ficiently agreeable to cause us to notice the 
flower particularly, on that account alone. The peculiarity of 
the genus is that the ovary is not twisted as in all our other 
Orchids, and the lip is therefore in its proper place on the 
upper side. 
“The type of most Orchids is ternary,” says Meehan, in 
Native Flowers and Ferns ; “in other words, three leaves form 
a verticil in them whenever the spiral growth is rapidly 
arrested, and the spiral coil is brought down to aplane. We 
generally look for three leaves on the flower stem of an Orchid 
of this kind; but in this species, C. pulchellus, only the central 
one has been developed, while the lower has advanced no 
farther than a reddish-brown sheath, and the third or upper one 
has been so entirely absorbed by the stem that only a small 
reddish-brown spot is left to show where the leaf might have 
been. In the flower, however, the ternary character is better 
