Dec, 1909.] The Orchids of Ohio. 27 



4. Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. Small Yellow Lady's-slipper. 

 Stem 1-2 ft. high, pubescent, leafy; leaves 5, oval, elliptic, 

 or lanceolate, -2-6 in. long; flower solitary ; lip golden yellow, 

 M-l/i in. long, purple spotted. Grows in woods and 

 thickets. Lorain, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Stark, Montgomery, 

 Clarke, Franklin and Gallia Counties. 



The variety known as Cypripedium hirsutum Mill., Large 

 Yellow Lad3"'s-slipper, is a tall showy plant with leafy stem 

 and larger flower than C. parviflorum, with pale yellow lip 

 13^—2 in. long. In woods and thickets. Fulton, Lucas, 

 Wyandot, Medina, Portage, Auglaize, Champaign, Licking, 

 and Gallia Counties. 



Galeorchis Rydb. 



Rhizome very short with numerous flesh}^ roots; stem 

 scape-like with 2 large round leaves at the base; flowers in a 

 short loose spike with large leaf-like bracts surpassing them; lip 

 entire, wavy, produced below into a spur. 



1. Galeorchis spectabilis (L.) Rydb. Showy^ Orchis. Stem 4-12 

 in. high, fleshy, 5-angled; leaves with 1 or 2 scales below 

 them, sometimes 8 in. long and 4 in. wide, but usually 

 smaller, clammy to the touch; flowers in a short loose spike 

 with large leaf-like bracts surpassing them, violet-purple 

 mixed with lighter purple and white; lip whitish, divergent, 

 entire, about as long as the petals. A plant with 2 large 

 leaves surpassing the stem and a spike of showy flowers. 

 Grows in rich woods. Defiance, Sandusky, Cuyahoga, 

 Medina, Portage, Wyandot, Stark, Columbiana, Miami, 

 Clarke, Franklin, Licking, Greene, Fairfield, Clinton, Ross, 

 Vinton, Hamilton, Clermont, and Gallia Counties. 



Perularia Lindl. 



Plant leafy -stemmed with a cluster of thick fibrous roots; 



flowers small, greenish, in a long open spike with long bracts; 



lip lanceolate with a tooth on each side at the base and a central 



tubercle at the middle of the base; spur slender, straight, longer 



than the lip, but shorter than the ovulary. 



1. Perularia fl a va (L.) Rydb. Tubercled Orchis. Stem smooth, 

 bracted, 12-24 in. high, stout, leafy; leaves lanceolate or 

 elhptic, acute or obtuse, 4-12 long; flowers greenish, in a 

 long open spike with long bracts; lip lanceolate, with a tooth 

 on each side at the base, and a central tubercle at the middle 

 of the base. A sturd}" plant with a leafy stem and small 

 pale green flowers, growing in moist soil. Erie, Cuyahoga, 

 Huron, Lake, Crawford, Knox, Franklin, and Gallia Counties 



Coeloglossum Hartman. 



Leafy plants with biennial 2-cleft tubers; flowers greenish, in 

 a long, leafy -bracted spike; lip oblong,fobtuse,_2-3 toothed at 

 the apex; spur much shorter than the lip. blunt, sac-like. 



