The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17538248484)

Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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GRASS PINKS FROM THE BORDER OF THE MARSH Where all is motion and life and comradeship, wind swaying the grasses, bobolinks singing, bees flying from flower to flower, grow the rose-purple grass pinks (Limodorum tuberosum). They are often accompanied by one or both of two other small orchids, the rose pogonia and arethusa-all three too easily uprooted from the moss. Each grass pink flower has a cup of pollen with a hidden hinge which the bee swings open. The species seems to be an isolated record of a previous and more simple state of the orchid family, where the lip was above in the flower and the seed pod not twisted; if it is this, a intermediate forms have become extinct. These beautiful small orchids should be eliminated from all lists of supply for botanical study in schools oil