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two, and occasionally three flowers on a stalk, where the 

 northern plant usually bears but one. 



Pogonia ophioglossoides. Flowers pink or rose, nearly 1 

 in. long, 1-3 near summit of stem. Lip crested and short- 

 fringed. Stem 6-20 in. tall, bearing 1 or 2 oblong or elliptic 

 leaves 1-3 in. long. Marshes. Blooming in late winter and 

 spring. Fla. to Newfoundland, Ontario, and Kan. 



Fringed Orchids (Genus Blephariglottis) 



The flowers of this group of orchids are distinguished 

 by the fringed lip, which, like that of the orchids in the 

 two groups following, is prolonged below in a spur. 



The beautiful yellow fringed orchid, B. ciliaris, is a 

 striking plant when its conspicuous spikes of orange-yellow 

 flowers flame in midsummer marshes. 



Blephariglottis ciliaris (Habenaria). Yellow fringed or- 

 chid. Flaming orchid. Orange orchid. Flowers orange- 

 yellow, about 1/2 in. long, many, in cylindrical spike termi- 

 nating leafy stem 1-3 ft. tall. Lip deeply fringed. Spur 1 

 in. long or more. Leaves 3-8 in. long. Low grounds. Bloom- 

 ing in summer. Fla. to Texas and northward. 



Blephariglottis conspicua. White fringed orchid. Flow- 

 ers white. Spur nearly 2 in. long. Marshes. Blooming in 

 summer. Fla. 



Spider Orchids. Rein-Orchids (Genus Habenaria) 



Allied to the fringed orchids are the spider orchids, whose 

 flowers, as the illustration of H. quinqueseta shows, have a 

 form peculiar to themselves. The lip, instead of being 

 fringed as in the preceding group, is three-parted, and 

 the two lateral petals are each unequally two-parted, one 

 of the divisions being narrow and spreading, while the 

 other, short, broad, and erect, is arched under the hooded 

 upper sepal — an arrangement that gives the flowers a 

 marked resemblance to the small white or green spiders 

 sometimes seen on flowers. The blossoms of a number of 



