Class XX. Order I. 323 



Invested with short, alternate, leafy sheaths ; pubescent at top. 

 Spike dense, oblong. Flowers curving downward, of a dull 

 white colour. Germs ovate. Petals pubescent. Lip of the 

 nectary minutely crenulate, somewhat acute. In moist ground. 

 August, September. Perennial. 



Subgenus GOODYERA. Lip gibbous, undivided above ; 

 pollen angular, (Brown,) sectile. (Reichard.) 



NEOTTIA PUBESCENS. Willd. Veined Neottia. Rattlesnake 



Plantain. 



Radical leaves ovate, petioled, reticulated ; scape 

 sheathed, scape and flowers pubescent ; lip ovate, acu- 

 minate ; petals ovate. Willd. 



Syn. SATTRIUM REPENS. Mick. 



GOODYERA PUBESCENS. Nutt. 



A singular plant, remarkable for its dark leaves, reticulated 

 on their upper surface with white veins. They proceed from 

 the root or base of the scape on short petioles, are ovate, acute, 

 entire, and generally endure the winter. Stem or scape erect, 

 invested with a number of acute sheaths, distinctly pubescent. 

 Spike oblong, downy. Flowers white, from all sides of the stem. 

 Petals five, the three uppermost agglutinated, the two lateral 

 ones spreading, concave, acuminate. Nectary swelling, inflated, 

 with its point extended. Woods. July, August. Perennial. 



NEOTTIA REPENS. Willd. Creeping JYeottia. 



Radical leaves ovate, petioled, reticulated ; scape 

 sheathed ; scape and flowers pubescent; flowers unilate- 

 ral j lip and petals lanceolate. 



Syn. SATTRIUM REPENS. L. 



GoonrERA REPENS. Brown. 



A smaller plant than the preceding, and less distinctly reticu- 

 lated. Low woods. July. Perennial. 



333. EPIPACTIS. 



EPIPACTIS CONVALLARIOIDES. Willd. Heart leaved Epipactis. 

 Stem two leaved ; leaves opposite, heart shaped, 



