appellation. Orchis Is scarcely met with beyond the limits 

 of Europe; no where within the tropics or the southern 

 hemisphere. Habenaria is represented by various species 

 in the four quarters of the world, as well at in our own 

 country. 



From one to two feet high. Root fascicled. Stem up- 

 right, smooth, proceeding from two-edged to four-edged. 

 Leaves cauline, several (3-5) alternate, sessile, oblong, 

 sharp-pointed, quite entire nerved, keeled, at the base 

 sheathing two inches long. Spike ovately oblong, many- 

 flowered. Flowers blue-purple. Bractes lanceolate, nerved, 

 but little longer than the germens. Petals 5, flat, of the 

 same length, 3 lines long, the uppermost or dorsal one 

 ovate obtuse upright, outer lateral ones ovate sharp-pointed 

 outspread, inner lateral ones oblong obtuse near to the 

 dorsal petal upright, widened below the middle, where they 

 are denticulate, tapered at the base. Labettum but little 

 -longer than the other petals, tripartite, segments broad 

 cuneiform or wedge-shaped equal flat divided to the middle 

 into subulate strips, lateral ones divaricate, middle one 

 spreading. Germen half an inch long. 



