. The orchids of New England; a popular monograph. Orchids. 54 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. New Hampshire. Arethusa bulbosa chooses the open cran- berry swamp or the scanty shade of tamaracks. Gray calls it rather scarce or local, but as at Litchfield, Conn., and near Andover, Mass., where hundreds have been gathered at a time, it is wont to be abundant in its pet localities, and one is justi- fied in hunting for it anywhere. Its range in the Eastern United States is from " North Carolina to Wisconsin and north- wards," and the unsentimental Hooker states that the bulbs, with us, &quo
. The orchids of New England; a popular monograph. Orchids. 54 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. New Hampshire. Arethusa bulbosa chooses the open cran- berry swamp or the scanty shade of tamaracks. Gray calls it rather scarce or local, but as at Litchfield, Conn., and near Andover, Mass., where hundreds have been gathered at a time, it is wont to be abundant in its pet localities, and one is justi- fied in hunting for it anywhere. Its range in the Eastern United States is from " North Carolina to Wisconsin and north- wards," and the unsentimental Hooker states that the bulbs, with us, " are used to stimulate indolent tumors, and as a cure for ; The Arethusa is sometimes very fragrant, as Chapman, Goodale, and Burroughs in Pepacton, testify, and I regret that it has never been my for- tune to find a flower possessing that attraction. White varieties have been reported from Plymouth and other places in Massachusetts, but such in- FlG stances are said to be very rare in the i. Side view of column of Are- case of this Orchid, thusa. Sty stigma. 2 and 3. Front views of anther. Plymouth has also furnished two (From Gray's Botanical Text Book.) . „ 4. seed-vessel of Arethusa. abnormal specimens.* "One had a two-flowered scape, the flowers complete and united at the base; the other had the flowers, which were both inconK plete, united throughout nearly the whole ; And even these are less worthy of record than the oddity discovered at New Haven, Conn., by Mr. H. M. Denslow, where " two dis- tinct scapes sprang from the same bulb; one bearing the usual single flower, the other, ; The genus Arethusa contains but two other known species, natives respectively of Japan and Guatemala, and in this genus, to quote Gray, " the lanceolate sepals and petals, united at the base, ascend and arch over the. See Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanc
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