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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
the patch is almost as bright from the scarlet leaves and 
seed pods as it was in the time of flower. 
In Winthrop, at the outlet of Lake Cobbosseecontee, 
was found a big clump of purple loose-strife {Ly thrum 
salicaria) in full bloom. Consulting one better versed 
in flower lore than myself, I learned that the plant has 
not often been found nearer this location than Conwaj^ 
N. H. 
Many Maine ponds and lakes, notably Kezar Lake, 
Oxford County, bear on their bosoms the beautiful sweet- 
scented white water \\\y {Nymphsea odorata). Gray 
remarks that the blooms are sometimes pinkish, rarely 
pink-red. Yet in Freeport is a pond where the pink-red 
lily is so plenty that the lads of the town hawk them 
about the streets. 
The pink lady's slipper (Cypripediam acauk) is to 
be met in almost all parts of the state, very frequently 
attended by several of the pure white balloon-like 
blossoms which form Dr. Asa Gray counsels one always 
to expect of an3^ flower. But the 3'ellow, the Cypriped- 
ium pvbescens, is much less frequently met. I never saw 
it until it was brought into botany class in the high 
school at Lewiston. At that time, so scatteringly were 
the specimens found, that the student, who brought them 
from a grove in South Lewiston, refused steadfastly to 
reveal their haunt. Several of her specimens bore two 
blooms at the tip of one stalk. But the show^' lady's 
slipper (Cypripedium spectabile) is rarest of all, and I 
know of but one locality, and that indefinitel3^, where 
it is to be found it the State. This is near where the 
town lines of Hebron and Buckfield join, and the few who 
appreciate the rarity of the plant are highly indignant 
that a resident there has annualh' uprooted and sold to 
out-of-the-state parties the lovel}^ shy habitant of the 
-swampy places, 
Tne one-flowered pyrola (Moneses grandi£ora) has 
never come to my observation in Maine save from Knox 
Count3^ 
Fringed pol^'gala {Polygala paucifolia) was one of 
