. St. Nicholas [serial] . lassed together asweeds. For instance, last JulyI came upon a quantity of littleflowers, making a mass of pinkamong the grass, that were quitenew to me. I was walking with alady who had been keenly interestedin ladys-slippers in May. Oh,she said, on my pointing to theflowers, that grows all about must be some kind of pink cloverthing. I have never troubled topick it. The pink clover thing wasPolygala sangimiea (it is too prettynot to have an English name, butI have never heard one). A glanceat the straight alternate leaves showsthat it could be no possible rel
. St. Nicholas [serial] . lassed together asweeds. For instance, last JulyI came upon a quantity of littleflowers, making a mass of pinkamong the grass, that were quitenew to me. I was walking with alady who had been keenly interestedin ladys-slippers in May. Oh,she said, on my pointing to theflowers, that grows all about must be some kind of pink cloverthing. I have never troubled topick it. The pink clover thing wasPolygala sangimiea (it is too prettynot to have an English name, butI have never heard one). A glanceat the straight alternate leaves showsthat it could be no possible relationof the clover; in fact, it is a sisterof the bright-fringed polygala ofthe spring woods. It is a smallplant, six to eight inches high, with a tough,much-branching fibrous stem, and narrow dull-green alternate leaves. The flowerets growmassed together in a head, as close as a head of IN THE WOODS JULY. 839 clover, thoughvery differentlyshaped. Eachplant bears agreat many ofthese heads offlowers, which are bright rose-. CALOIOGUN IUIXHELLUS. beautiful spaces of color wherever many of theplants grow together. July is a great month for orchids. The earlierladys-slippers are past,but the splendid showyladys-slipper is still inblossom, and the delicate-fringed orchises, the white,the purple, the yellow, andthe ragged-fringed ; andnow, too, we find twobeautiful rose-pink or-chids, so much like eachother, and like arethusa,which blossoms in June,that the three are oftenconfused. All three havemuch the same generalcharacteristics of shapeand color, and all threegrow in swamps, or atleast in swampy places, bogs where the sphagnum moss is thick andwet and velvety. The most striking of the three is calopogon{Calopogon pulchellus, orchis family), as hand- some as any orchid in a florists window. Theplant bears sometimes three or four, sometimesfive or six, wide-spreading, butterfly-like flowers,gracefully set, as if just alighted, on the slimstem. They are bright rose-color, sometimes(
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