Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 443
wild parsnip tribehave it all their own way. Here is a little flower as delicate as any ofthose of early spring, and with a name to fitits dainty prettiness—ladys-tresses [Spiranthescernua, orchis family). You will find it inopen fields and pastures, on the borders ofwoods, anywhere where it can… … LADY S-TRESSES. that we have had. It is a slender little plantwith long, narrow leaf, or leaves, at the base,and a single straight stem, on which the manysmall white delicately fragrant flowers grow inthree ranks, the stem being twisted toward the top, as it were, into a tight spiral, with…
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