ORCHIS FAMILY. :',D 



H. psycbdes, SMALLER PritrLE FRINGED O. Common, especially 

 N. : leaves oblong, above parsing into lance-linear bracts ; spike cylindrical, 

 4' -10' long, crowded with smaller and fragrant flowers; lateral petal- w.-d-e- 

 obovate, almost entire; lip spreading, only ' wide, cut into denser fringe. 



H. perarncena. From Peim. W. ov S. along and near the mountains: 

 flowers of size intermediate, between tbe two preceding, the broad wcdge.->hapcd 

 lobes of the lip moderately eut-toothed, but not fringed. 



* * Flowers greenish or yellowish-white, in late summer : glands oval or lancet 



almost facing each otfu r : sjiike long and loose. 



H. leucophasa. From Ohio W. & S. : 2 -4 high; leaves lance-oblong ; 



flowers rather large, the fan-shaped lip 3-parted, | long, and many-cleft to the 

 middle into a thread-like fringe. 



H. lacera, RAGGED FRINGED 0. Common N. & E. : l-2high; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong ; petals oblong-linear, entire; divisions of the slender-stalked 

 3-parted lip narrow and slenderly fringed. 



* * * Flowers bright white, in summer: the lip fringe-margined but not cleft. 



H. blepharig!6ttis, WHITE FRINGED 0. Peat-bogs N. : like the next, 

 but rather smaller, 1 high, the fringe of the lance-oblong lip hardly equal to 

 the width of its body. 



* * * * Flowers bright orange-yellow, in late summer : glands orbicular, projecting 



on the beak-pointed bases of the very diverging anther-ctlls : ovary and jiod 

 lonij, tapering lo the summit. 



H. ciliaris, YELLOW FRINGED O. Sandy bogs: l-2 high; leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate ; spike short, of many crowded very showy flowers ; petals 

 cut-fringed at apex, the oblong body of the lip narrower than the copious long 

 and fine fringe. 



H. cristata, from Perm. S. : smaller, with narrower leaves, and flowers 

 only a quarter the size of the preceding, the petals crenate, and the ovate lip 

 with a narrow lacerate fringe. 



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2. Yellow, green, or white species, with tip entire, at least not fringed. 



* Stem leafy: (eaves oblong or lanceolate : flowers small : ant Jter-cells nearly parallel . 



H. Integra. Pine barrens from New Jersey S. : resembles H. cristata, 

 having small bright orange-yellow flowers, but the lip is ovate and entire or 

 barely crenulate. 



H. virescens. Wet grounds, common: 10' -20' high, with a conspicu- 

 ously bractcd at length long and loose spike of small dull-green flowers ; tin- 

 lip oblong, almost truncate at the apex, its base with a tooth on each side and 

 a n.isal protuberance on the face; spur slender, club-shaped. 



H. viridis, var. bracteata. Cold damp woods N. : 6'- 12' high, with 

 lower leaves obovate, upper reduced to bracts of the short spike, which are much 

 longer than the green flowers; lip truncate and 2-3-toothed at the tip, very 

 much longer than the sac-shaped spur. 



H. hyperborea. Cold low woods and bogs N. : 6'- 2 high, very leafy ; 

 leaves lanceolate; spike dense, often long; flowers greenish, the lanceolate lip 

 like the other petals, spreading, entire, about the length of the incurved spur. 



H. dilatata. Resembles the last, grows in same places, but common I j more 

 slender and with linear leaves; flowers white, less wide, open, the lanceolate 

 lip with a rhombic-dilated base ; glands strap-shaped. 



H. nivea. Sandy bogs, from Delaware S. : l-2 high, all the upper 

 leaves bract-like; flowers white, in a loose cylindrical spike, very small, dilVerent 

 from all the rest in having the (white) ovary without a twist, and the linear- 

 oblong entire lip with its long thread-like spur therefore looking inwards. 



* * Stem a naked scape: the leaves only 2 at the gronntl : //Un ,< pretty large in 



a loose spike : anther-cells widely diverging at their tapering or beak-hke 

 projecting base. 



II. orbiculata, GREAT GREEN O. Evergreen woods and hill-ides N. : a 

 striking plant; its exactly orbicular leaves 4' -8' wide, bright green above and 

 silvery beneath, lying flat on the ground ; scape i-2 high, braeted, bearing 

 many large greenish-white flowers in a loose raceme , sepals roundish ; lip nar 



