John Muir, who was a botanist, went into the swamps of Canada to study flowers and plants. On one of this outings, he came across a rare flower, Calypso borealis (the HIder of the North) and he got so moved by this beautiful and spiritual flower that he wrote about it and published it - 1864-. The flower was really rear for it had grown on yellow mosses; the bulb was white and was on the mosses; and one leaf and one flower had sprung from it.
