Dec, 1909.] The Orchids of Ohio. 29 



2. Lysias hookeriana (Gr. )Rydb. Hooker's Orchis. Stem 8-16 

 in. high, not bracted; leaves orbicular, oval, or obovate, 

 fleshy, shiny, spreading or ascending, 4-7 in. long; flowers 

 in a rather loosely many-flowered raceme, yellowish green; 

 lip linear-lanceolate, 3-4 in. long; flowers in a spike 3-6 in. 

 long, greenish; lip 2-3 in. long, 2-3 toothed or lobed at the 

 apex. A stvirdier plant than the preceding with a closer 

 raceme and thicker leaves. Medina County. 



Blephariglottis Raf. 



Plants with tall leafy stems and fleshy or tuberous roots; 

 flowers several or numerous, in an open spike with foliaceous 

 bracts; corolla white, yellow, or purplish; hp variously fringed 

 or 3-parted and cut toothed; spur longer than the Hp. 



1 . Lip not divided or 3-parted, fringed 2 



1 . Lip 3~parted, the divisions toothed or fringed 3 



2. Flowers orange or yellow, lip oblong B. ciliaris 



2. Flowers white, lip narrowly ovate-lanceolate B. blephariglottis 



3. Flowers greenish yellow or white 4 



3. Flowers violet or purplish 5 



4. Flowers greenish yellow; petals entire, fringe of a few threads. .B. lacera 



4. Flowers white; petals minutely cut-toothed, fringe copious 



B. leucophaea 



5. Segments of the lip deeply fringed B. psycodes 



5. Segments of the lip cut -toothed B. peramoena 



1. Blephariglottis ciliaris (L.) Rydb. Yellow Fringed-orchis. 



Stem 16-28 in. high, slender, smooth, bracted; leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, 4-8 in. long, the tapper smaller; flowers 

 orange or yellow, large, showy, in a close many-flowered 

 spike; lip 5-7 lines long, copiousty fringed more than half 

 way to the middle. A tall slender plant with showy yellow- 

 fringed flowers, growing in meadows. Fulton County. 



2. Blephariglottis blephariglottis (Willd.) Rydb. White Fringed- 



orchis. Leaves more slender than in the preceding species; 

 flowers pure white, somewhat smaller than those of preced- 

 ing species, in a densely or rather loosely many-flowered 

 spike; lip narrow, oblong, copiously or sparsely fringed. A 

 tall plant with white fringed flowers, growing in bogs or 

 swamps. Geauga and Portage Counties. 



3. Blephariglottis lacera (Mx.) Rydb. Ragged Orchis. Stem 



rather slender, bracted, leafy, 12-24 in. high; leaves firm, 

 lanceolate, 43/^-8 in. long, the upper gradually smafler; 

 flower^ greenish yellow in a long loose spike ; segments of the 

 lip narrow, deeply fringed, the fringe of a few threads about 

 }4 in . long. A tall slender plant with a ragged looking spike of 

 greenish yellow flowers, growing in swamps and wet woods. 

 Cuyahoga, Portage, Crawford, Wayne, Stark, Licking, and 

 Fairfield Counties. 



