824 ORCHIS FAMILY. 



tower face of which is the stigma. Lip broad. erect, with a recurvlv.g 

 reunified ;\pex :uid :i bearded crest down the face. Pollen-masses 4, two in 

 .M It ci-11 (!' the anther. 



7. CAL< !'( )<;< i\. Flowers 2, 3, or several, in a raceme-like loose spike; the lip 



turned towards the axis diveiying widely from the Mender (above wing-mar- 

 gined) style, narrower at ba-e. larger and rounded at the apex, strongly 

 bearded along the face. Sepals and the 2 petal- i. early alike, lance-oval/-, 

 separate and spreading. Anther lid-like: pollen-masses 4. 



8. POtiONFA. Flowers one or lew tenninating a \< .if-iiearing stem; the sepals 



and petals separate; lip civ-ted or 3-lobed. Style club--hapcd, wingless: 

 stigma lateral. Anther lid-like, somewhat stalked: pollen-masses 2, only one 

 in each cell. 



<-,. ^H. rimrcrs mostly fi/iull, /lull-colored, in a spike or raceme on <i brownish or ytl- 

 Ivu'iiili ItujliKu fi-iiji, : pollen-manses -1, i/lobulur, soft-waxy. 



3. CORALLOIilll/A. Flowers with si-pals and petal- nearly alike: the lip broader. 

 2-ridged on the face below, from its base descends a short sac or ob.-cure spur 

 which adheres to the upper part of the ovary. Scape with sheaths in place 

 of leaves; the root or rootstock thickish, much branched and coral-like. 



10. APLKCTRUM. Flowers as in No. 9, but no trace of a spur or sac, larger. 



Scape rising from a large solid bulb or conn, which also produces, at a dill'er- 

 ent season, a broad and many-nerved green leaf. 



* * Anihersi (Lessons p. 111. fig. 226), borne one on each side of the style, and a 

 tfuwfl-sliirjini lioilij i>n the upper side iwsirers to (lie third stamen, tht am tlttit 

 alone is present in other Orchids : pollen powdery or pulpy : stigma roughisk : 

 unt glutinous. 



11. CYl'KIPKDirM. Sepals in appearance generally only 2, and petals 2, be.-idcs 



the lip which is a large inflated sac, into the mouth of which the style, bear- 

 ing the stamens and terminated by the broad terminal stigma, is declined. 

 Pollen sticky on the surface, as if with a delicate coat of varnish, powdery or 

 at length pulpy underneath. 



1. EPIDENDUM. (Name in Greek means upon a tree, i. c. an epiphyte ) 



E. conopseum, our only wild Orchideous Epiphyte or Air-plant, is found 

 from South Carolina S. & W. on the boughs of Magnolia, >.<.(., clinging to the 

 bark bv its matted roots, its tuberous rootstocks bearing thick and firm lance- 

 olate leaves ( I'-3' long), ami scapes 2'-G' long, with a raceme of small greenish 

 and purplish flowers, in summer. (Lessons, p. 36, fig. 88.) 



2. ORCHIS. (The ancient name, from the Greek.) We have only one true 

 Orchis, viz. 



O. spect&bilis, SHOWY ORCHIS. Rich hilly woods N. ; with 2 oblong 

 obovate glossy leaves (3'-5' long) from the ricshy-lihrous root, ami a leafy- 

 bracted scape 4'-"' high, bearing in a loose spike a few pretty llowers, pink- 

 purple, the ovate lip white : in late spring. 



3. HABENARIA, popularly called ORCHIS. (Name from Latin halna, 



a rein or thong, from the shape of the lip of the corolla in some species.) 

 Flowers in a terminal spike, each in the axil of a bract, in late spring or sum- 

 mer. In all but one species the ovary twists and the lip occupies the lower 01 

 anterior side of the flower. 



1. FiMMiKD OHCIIIS. Lip mid oflrn the other petal* cut-fringed or clefl, 



a/inrti'i- I/KIII tin- luiii; ciirriiii/ s/mr: c< l/s of tin' uidltir moir ur lms tl!n nftng 

 and lii/nriiii/ l/<i', the .-.v/r/v/ gland at their lower <//</ strongly projecting 

 lii/-inii<t.<. I'lifsi- nr< <>ur handsomest TM/ Orchises: nit yroif tn lays or low 

 t/roiiiid* : s/i ins I, i if'i/, 1- 4 ln'i/li. 



* Flowers vt<>/<t-/mr/>l<>, in summer: tin- ///> fitii-sh<i/>,'fl, ^-/xirlnl nearly down to t/ie 



stnlk-liL'i 1 husi , iitnl tltf ilirisimis i/i<>r< or l< ssj'rinijed. 



H. fimbriita, LAKOBB PURPLE FRINGED O. Wet meadows from Penn. 



N. !'- : lower leaves oval or oblong, upper few and small; raceme-like spike 

 oblong, with rather few large flowers in early summer ; petals oblong, toothed 

 down the sides ; lip almost 1' wide, hanging, cut into a delicate fringe. 



