ROYAL FAMILY OF ORCHIDS. 



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delicate and so majestic that it would seem that the 

 most casual observer must pause before its noble 

 beauty. It is not common, though it has been found 

 in the Dell at Garvin Hill, at Snow's Pond, at Bull 

 Meadow and several other places. Its smaller sister, 

 the psycodes, which comes in August, is quite abun- 

 dant. This has many more flowers crowded on the 

 spike, but they are about half the size of the fimbriata 

 and less beautiful with a rather pronounced fragrance. 

 There is a certain stream that we have named Orchid 

 Brook on account of this species. The woods near by 

 is the home of the pretty little dalibarda, one of the 

 Rosaceae, whose foliage suggests the violet. The two 

 orchids just mentioned are called purple, when they 

 are more nearly a pinkish lavender; but purple is a 

 word of wide mis-application by the bird- and flower- 

 christeners. 



The exquisite white-fringed orchis, H. blephariglot- 

 tis, has been found in a remote jungle on the western 

 side of Big Turkey, but ? t is a parlous journey thither. 

 The writer remembers to this day the damp heat of 

 that August afternoon, the stings of insects and the 

 irritation of minute crawlers, the wild scramble 

 through the underbrush and the slappings and 

 switchings from obdurate bushes, the stumbling over 



