of the year, the Lady's Tress, Spiranthes cernua, a little, grass-like plant with 
three rows of minute white flowers arranged in spirals around the stem. An in- 
conspicuous little thing, it would be almost invisible except here on this bare 
brown sod. 
The Orchis grandiflora likes deep bogs that tremble far and wide beneath 
your tread, but here the soil is hard and lean, and hungry, a gaunt covering 
stretched over the strata of solid rock. In winter, if 
the earth is bare of snow, whether dumb and frozen, 
or moist and fragrant beneath the southern rain, you 
may find our two evergreen Orchis, the Rattlesnake 
Plantain, Goodyera pubescens, and the Putty-root, 
Aplectrum hyemale. The first with a rosette ot 
leaves close to the ground, which are laced all over 
with veins of pure white; the only variegated plant 
of our woods, so far as | know. The latter has a 
single large leaf which lies flat on the earth, looking 
faded and almost dead the year round. Of course, 
you may find them in the summer, when the Good- 
yera has a slender spike of minute white flowers in a 
spiral, like the Lady's Tress, while the Aplectrum 
shows a brown, leafless scape, like the Coral-root's 
coming up at a distance from the leaves; but they 
are less conspicuous than among crowded herbage. 
Thus, any day in the year, unless the snow is 
deep, you may find some member of this family, and 
even then you can gather the capsules of the Coral- 
root. 

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