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Showy Orchis or Preacher in the Pulpit, Orchis spectabilis syn. Galearis spectabilis

Identifier: nativeflowersfer01meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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that this animal burrows deep holes in thecrround, the earth drawn out in working the burrow forming alittle mound at the outlet. The popular belief is that the owland the rattlesnake make their home in these undergroundchambers, and that the three animals live together in peace andharmony. This is a remarkable fact, if true, since most snakesreo-ard the young of birds and other animals as desirable deli-cacies. The writer has, however, often seen the owl on themounds of the prairie dogs, and it is possible the rattlesnakepart of the story may be as correct as the other ; but if this isso, mid-it we not say, with as much reason as the ancientsusually had for what they believed, that the prairie dogs use theflowers to protect themselves from the bites of their poisonousfellow-lodgers ? Explanation ok tiik Plafe. — i. Full-sized plant. — 2. Stamens and pistils after the sepalshave fallen. —3. Head, with long-tailed achenia. —.;. Single aehene, or seed witli tailedawn. Plate 14.
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Orchis spectabilis, L, Praug & Company, Boston

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