OUR JMATTVE ORCHIDS. 



with the next. As semi-double varieties occur wild, it is 

 evident that skillful attention can produce many varieties 

 having double flowers. Hepaticas are certainly m 

 promising than the original daisy {Bcllis percnnis) was 

 the foliage being handsomer and the range of color far 

 wider. April. 



Hefatica acittiloba (Sharp-lobed Liverwort). — It is 

 difficult to find two plants with flowers alike, there are so 

 many varieties. The colors range from deep purple to 

 white, rarely bluish. The flowers open in April, and are 

 prettier than those of triloba ; but the leaves, lighter and 

 acutely pointed, are not so attractive. 



Waldstcinia fragaroides (Dry Strawberry). — Plant 

 five inches high ; grows on sloping hillsides. The leaves 

 resemble those of the strawberry, but are thin, shining 

 green and deeply cut-toothed. Its pretty yellow flowers 

 are borne in clusters. 



Pyrola clliptica (False Wintergreen). — Leaves broad, 

 evergreen. Flower-stem eight inches tall, bearing many 

 rather large white, wax-like flowers. 



The following taller plants grow in similar places: 



Phlox divaricata (Spreading Phlox).— Plants a foot 

 high, bearing in April and May large corymbs of large 

 blue and purple fragrant flowers. 



HydrofhyUiim Virgiuicum (Virginia Water-leaf). — A 

 curious and handsome plant about a foot high, with large 

 pinnate mottled leaves and many clusters of rather large 

 bell-shaped, white-purplish to sky-blue flowers, some- 

 what resembling those of the phacelia, but much larger 

 It is not very showy, but I find it to be one of the finest 

 of bouquet-flowers, as its peculiar shade of color har- 

 monizes well with many other shades. 



Trillium- grandijiortim (Great-flowered Trillium).— 

 This is justly one of our most popular wild flowers. 

 The plant is from eight to twelve inches high. 

 The flowers open in May, are very showy and 

 from two to six inches in diameter. Their colors 

 range from pure white to deep rosy purple, and 

 they are often beautifully variegated. 



TriUium erectiim (Bath-flower). — About a foot 

 high ; flowers of a peculiar dark reddish purple. There 

 is said to be a variety with flowers white or cream color, 

 but I have never seen it. It flourishes in deep, rich, 

 moist, well-shaded soil, while the purple variety grows 

 on drier lands. Handsome. May. 



Uvularia grandiflora (Great-flowered Bellwort). — A 

 beautiful plant of the lily order, with pretty sea-green 

 obovate leaves and rather 

 large yellow, drooping, bell- 

 shaped flowers ij-^ inches 

 long. April, May. 



Mitclla diphylla (Miter- 

 wort). — About a foot high. 

 Leaves somewhat like the 

 bishop's-cap. Flowers in 

 long, loose racemes, small, 

 f BUj ^^BH white ; the petals fringed 



HHIRvIHI ''^ ^ remarkable manner. 



May. Not showy enough 

 for large beds. 



Aris(cma ti-iphyllum 

 (Indian-turnip, or Jack-in- 

 the-Pulpit). — An odd and 

 well-known plant. April 

 and May. 



Smilacina stellata 

 (Starry Solomon's-seal). — 

 A pretty plant about 18 

 inches high, with many at- 

 tenuated lance-oblong 

 leaves and a terminal sim- 

 ple raceme of pretty pure 

 white flowers. May, June. 



Smilacina race mosa 

 (Clustered Solomon's-seal). 

 — Larger and coarser, from 

 to 2 feet high. Flowers 

 in a rather large panicle of 

 racemes, very numerous 

 and small, of a greenish 

 white color. This species 

 has been planted on the 

 World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition grounds. 



Podophvlhim pcltatiim 

 (American Mandrake). — A well-known plant with two 

 very large coarsely divided leaves and a large, solitary, 

 very handsome pure white wax-like flower. Plant ten to 

 eighteen inches high. May. 



Michigan. Wilfred A. Brotherton. 



OUR NATIVE ORCHIDS— II. 



RATTLESNAKE-PLANTAIN AND CORAL-ROOT. 



MONG our most attractive native or- 

 chids there is one known to botanists 

 as Goodyera fubescejis (fig. i, page 

 520), which has the advantage of pre- 

 serving its attractiveness at all sea- 

 sons, for its leaves are evergreen, and 

 quite as pretty as the flowers. At any 

 time in winter when the ground is bare of snow you will 

 find it nestling in a cosy bed of dead leaves, or sheltered 



under a canopy of evergreen boughs. Its habitation is 

 generally chosen so far from trodden paths, deep in some 

 recess of rich hillside-woods that, if you wait for summer, 

 you will be likely enough to miss it altogether. For 

 this reason, many who know the leaves are unacquainted 

 with the flower. In July and August, when it blooms, 

 the woods are dense with growth, and the place of its 

 retreat is often passed unseen. 



The common names of our wild-flowers are not always 



