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196. | GYNANDRIA. MONANDRIA. 
619, MALAXIS. Swartz. R. Brown. 
Petals 5, narrower than the lip, spreading or 
deflected. Lip flattened, undivided, sessiles. 
(mostly ‘situated bebind). Column porrected. 
Pollinia 4, parallel, affixed to the summit of the 
stigma, a 
Roots round and bulbous; leaves.liliaceous, radical, 2. 
or more; scapes angular, naked, many-fiowered. 
Specigs. 1. M. &litfolia. (Scape pentagonal, leaves a- 
“single pair, ovate.) Pluk. smechie fi 162. t 434. f. 9. An- 
dtews Repet..05. 2 4#. : 
2. Correana. P. W. Barton, Prodr. Flor. Philad. p. 86. 
Ozs. Leaves a single pair, ovate-tanceolate, scape margi- 
. wally pemangular; petals revolute on the margin; lip ob- 
long, channelled (green), somewhat shorter. than the pe- 
tals, apex corda(ciy recurved. Has. In the vicinity of 
Philudelphia.—Professor Barton. Nearly allied to M 
Loesela: of Europe, with which at ought further to be coms 
pared, bu! certainly appears distinct; it is much larger; ~ 
_ with the flowers’smaller and more numerous, of a green — 
- colour with a tinge of yellow; capsule asin the preceding). 
attenuated downwards. Some specimens occur neara span 
high, and the ieaves are often longer than the spike; Toots — 
round and bulbous, as well as the preceding often graw- 
ing near the roots of trees, or in recent vegetable soil. 
__*Mrcrosryuis. Lip sessile and concave, erect; 
the summit truncate, and bidentate. Column mi- —— 
mute. Anthers 2; pollinia 3, oe. 
. . Root bulbous; scape unifoliate, many-flowered, flow- 
“y me eee of them abortive; capsules subglo- 
S$. ophioglossoides. Pluk. amalth, t. 434. f 4. Oss. 
_ Seape about a spun high, t-leaved, producing a foliaceous 4 
sheath towards the base; Jeaf ovate, amplexicaule. Petals, 
_@® — 5, connivent, only 1 of them deflected, the 2 interior fili- 
2 form; lip about the length ef the petals, erect, concave, 
padest at the base, cueullate over the amthers, summit 
_ truncate, emaryinate and divaricate, bidentate, producing 
_ also an intermediate denticulation. Column minute, scarce 
dy visible. Anthers 2; the exterior whitish, producing 2 
masses of pollen, the interior which is acute and pointed 
_, only 1, Has. Near the roots of trees in New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania. Flowers green cg s 
