BOGBEAN 
Menyanthes trifoliata Linnaeus 
This lovely flower is well protected from molestation by admir- 
ing visitors, for it grows in cold swamps or such wet places that 
rubber boots are a necessity if good specimens are to be obtained. 
Usually it is associated with thick beds of sphagnum. The white 
flowers, tinged with pink or purple and glistening in the sun, seem 
to vie with the bog orchids in beauty. The plant springs from a thick 
underground rootstock. It belongs to the small Bogbean Family, 
which is closely related to, and by many authors included in, the 
Gentian Family. 
The range of the bogbean is wide, for it extends from New Jersey 
and West Virginia to Nebraska and California, and northward to 
Greenland and Alaska. It is found also in Europe and Asia. 
The specimen sketched was collected in a cold bog near the motor 
road from Lake Louise to Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada, at an alti- 
tude of 5,500 feet. 
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