EPIPACTIS VIRIDIFLORA 
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so distinguished a family* Even in our own climate 
the title to distinction is upheld by the Yellow 
Moccasin Flower or Lady's Slipper of the shady 
woods and her more beautiful sisters of the Sphagnum 
swamps, also by the Showy Orchis, the dainty and 
delicate Calopogon, the Snake's Mouth, the Northern 
Calypso, and the white, stately, and fragrant Ladies' 
Tresses* And when the charm of rarity is added to 
the honour of distinguished connections the Epipactis 
becomes a treasured friend* 
It was a great source of satisfaction to find a solitary 
plant growing in High Park beside the main drive 
of the ravine* It stood unostentatiously, scarcely 
more than a foot high, among some half-grown Elm- 
leaved Goldenrod and Boneset* A dozen flowers 
tipped their rounded seed-pods along the stem above 
the leaves, but they seemed so inconspicuous and 
colourless as to be worth scarcely a passing glance* 
The mounted policeman was there, too, coming 
leisurely along the road, and the penetrating look of 
suspicion in his eye suggested an instinctive discern- 
ment of the proximity of hidden treasure. It seemed 
an age before he rounded the curve of the road, and 
even then he came back and looked over the Witch- 
hazel bushes to assure himself that nothing was in 
danger* This flower has the three regular sepals 
peculiar to the Orchid, and also the three petals, two 
regular and one twisted and distorted. The twisted 
