New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-23

grdSS-plnk. or CaIOpO9Ou. lUiS ~ VIC Ousy W.
child, believe, which carries its lip on the uppee
instead of ON the lower side Of the flower, con-
trast 10 the usual arrangement which is owing 70
the nOn-twisting of the Ovary. he deep pink
flowers, with their spreading white, yellow and
pink-bearded kps are clustered near the summit
Of q stem which is about a foot high; The single
leaf is long and narrow. searched the Dog winch
yielded the grass-pinks in abundance for the ad-
ders mouth or pogonia, but nowhere detected Its
rose-colored blossoms and vioet-like fragrance,
fine the nS long h
leaves and cOiled flowers of the insect-devouring
sundew.
Where mountain brook gushes among beds Of
moss and quiverng fans Of maidenhalr spring
the fragrant wands OF the northern white orchb.
This is shy phntswhich is seldom found save in
some such remote cool spot. Less rare and ex'
irnged orchises. From now till August a care.
full search OF any Doggy meadow may discover it1
%oods we eneoantsr constantly shraSby plant
with rounded clusters Of small white flowers.
This is the New-Jersey tea red root the former
name arising from the made of its leaves dur.
ing the Revolution, the latter from its dark red
root The driest and most uninviting localities
do not seem TO discourage either this persistent
little shrub or the bushy- looking wild indigo, with
its clover-llke leaves and short terminal clusters
of yellow, pea-like blossoms. In shaded hollOws
and on the hlsidcs the tall white wands Of the
black cOhosh, or bugbane, shoot upward, rocket
like. Tho great stout stems. large. dividel leaves
and slender spikes Of feathery flowers render this
the most conspicuous wood plant Of the season.
III we cnance 10 De lingering
In secret paths that thread the forest iund oi
when the last sunlight has died away?&nd hap
pen suddenly upon one Of these ghostly groups
the effect is almost startling. The rank odor Of
the flowers detracts somewhat from ones enjoy
ment Of their beauty. and is responsible, sup
posc for their unpleasing title OF bngbane. Under
the. pine trees are the glossy leaves and nodding
spring graceful, wax-likc clusters of PARASITIC
Indian pipe, the fresh blossoms noddinen from
leaess, eshy stalks the older ones erecting them
these odd-Iooking flowers they turn black from
our touch, adding their protest to the cry against
the despoiler. and nvalidating their claim to7the
From some deep shadow CLEAN the coral-llc berries
of the early elder the bright, rigid clusters Of
the baneberry. On the low electromagnetic the
insect world that they have no attractions to
offer in the way Of pollen honey, their fertiliza-
ton being achieved already.
Brit at present the woods are not altogether
satisfactory hunting grounds The more interest
ing flowers have sought the combined light and
moisture OF the open boys or the sunshine OF the
ties Of bladder-campion. a European member OF
the Pink family which has established itself In
Eastern New-England. II can he recognized az
once by its much-inflated calyx and by its deeply
parted white petals. few days since found
the wayside whitened with the large flowers OF the
lovely summer anemOnc, each one sprnging from
distance suggesting white wild geraniums. near
kinsman. the thimble-wced. s apt to he confused
with tho summer ancmone when 1t Is fomna pear
ing white instead Of grecnish flowers. THIS curl,
ous-lOOking plant is noticeable now IN shadeo
spots growing TO height of two or three feet, ana
sending up gaunt fowcr-stalks which are finally
crowned with large, oblong thimble-like head
of fruit
Banked in hollows Of the hillside are
tall. nOdding wands Of willow-'erb or hrewecd,
with delicate flowers Of intense phrplc.pnk Each
blossom contains both stamens and pistil, puC
these mature at different times, and so-cai ne
is. p,syentsd w The th pollen
matur, pistll is still bent backward, with its
stigmas so closed as to render il Impossible Ior
them to receive upon their surfaces single qeics
enng grain Later 1t crccts itself. spreading itS
four stigmas. which now secure easily any pollen
which may have been brushed upon the body OK
tho visiting bee. These flowers are 80 large and
who chances upon the plant can witness spesuIly
the whole performance Close by arr, raspberry
one could live for days on the rocky hillside
without other food than this most suotly naVoleu
Of all berries. Overhead its pirpe-towered slstel
bctrays its kirship with the now abundant WHO "a
rose whose delicate beauty it fails utterly %
rival In thc low thickct are tiny, rose.veineo
bells of dogbane, and beyond the bright. II some
of The irrepressibe ST. Johns wort jut up every
where in the moist bitches the ulnbrela-lke Gus
ter OF the water hemlOck suggest the VIVA ~
the later year. The coarse stems and nat, yei,
low tops of its relative the meadow parsnip, crowo
one upon another. Farther on are soft glumes
Of the later yellow oosestrife with little howsss
which is now in its wane. $500, 49,
,,,' Ws,,' edo"s SIcam svery brches, whose
tops are soft with the tassels OF the chest
nut Below it slopes meadow turned yellow
with the pale flowers of the wild radish ABOVE
il snrges a field of grain which grows Dark anH
cool with the shadow Of a scdrrying cloud. II
ore were nearer he would Sc" among the r wGrss
calvy Of the corn cookie The year is at lts
height The bosom of the earth is soft ana rest
fui as that of a mother. One abidcs in its per
feet present, looking neither behind nor before ore
With the ever-racnrring scent OF new-mown nay
comes another odor, aromatic, permeating From
our feet slopes
"A bank where the wild thyme grows.
Only in this one spot have ever met with TINS
classic little plant, with is close purple mO%ei
/, ono supfrb rain-washed afternoon over a week
400 tbe line from Mr. Watson's poem on Words
worth flashed into my mind
From dewy pastures uplands sweet with nyme
and nj the same instant l appreciated the humot
OF Mr.. Oscar Wilde's assertion TO the ehec. !las
the chief use of Nature is to illustrate quotatlons
from the poets.
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