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also alludes to the beautiful spectacle of these plants in the 

 boglancls. A pure white form, rarely found, was designated 

 C. album in Alton's "Catalogue of Plants," in 1Y89, and 

 Lindley, in 1840, adopted Alton's name for our species, so 



The pink Moccasin Flower. 



that the plant has been known by several names since Carnoti 

 first christened it in 1635. 



The leafy stems of this queen of the moccasin flowers 

 rise three, and often four feet in height and resemble Indian 



