arethusa

• Below this was a swamp surrounded by a luxuriant growth of asters of every hue, and white and pink spirea and golden rod, and blue iris, and the delicate, rose-colored arethusa, and the blue fringed gentian abounded on every hand; also shrubs of the bayberry, wild rose and sweet brier, with many beautiful ferns. —  Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
• It makes a pet of one of our oddest, brightest, and showiest flowers, the pink lady's-slipper, and by some means or other has enticed it away from the peat bog, where it surely should be growing, along with the calopogon, the pogonia, and the arethusa, and here it is, like some rare exotic, thriving in a bed of sand and on a mat of brown needles. —  The Foot-path Way
• Too well we know it, -- we who in happy Cambridge childhood often gathered, almost within a stone's throw of Professor Agassiz's new Museum, the arethusa and the gentian, the cardinal-flower and the gaudy rhexia, -- we who remember the last secret hiding-place of the rhodora in West Cambridge, of the yellow violet and the _Viola debilis_ in Watertown, of the _Convallaria trifolia_ near Fresh Pond, of the _Hottonia_ beyond Wellington's Hill, of the _Cornus florida_ in West Roxbury, of the _Clintonia_ and the dwarf ginseng in Brookline, -- we who have found in its one chosen nook the sacred _Andromeda polyfolia_ of Linnaeus. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861
• But with June comes the most exquisite of our New England wild-flowers, the arethusa, or swamp-pink, as it is often styled, to the great confusion of its delicate, high-born nature with the great, vulgar, flaunting azalea. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
• When June comes, -- when the clethra is heaped with its bee-beloved blossoms, and the grass is green and bright as never again in the year, then the arethusa is to be sought. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860

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