58 ACROANTIIES. 



dix medial. — Texas to Tennessee, dwarfish, 

 one foot high, vernal. Autikon rar. Ic. n. sp. 



ACROANTHES Raf. 1818, Dcxvaux 1810. 

 Mierostylis Nuttal 1818 ! Beck 1833 ! Lindley 

 Gray . . . Malaxis sp. Michaux and authors. 

 Ophrys Lin ... A very distinct Genus by habit 

 and liowers, ascertained by me since 1802, na- 

 med and described ten years before Nuttal's 

 subgenus, since made a Genus, by others who 

 have neglected to restore my previous name, 

 meaning nncolortdfioicers. 



Orchid ea with hulbose root, stem icith a 

 medial sheathing leaf, raceme with bracts and 

 scattered minute green flowers. — Sepals nar- 

 row connivent, the two inner narrower; lip 

 erect cuculate, dilatate: Column minute bear- 

 ing 2 anthers terminal annexed. Gray says one 

 anther with 2 cells and 4 pollens. Nuttal said 

 2 unequal anthers, one with a single pollen! 

 which must be by abortion. Capsules globose, 

 often abortive. 



1. AcR. LAxiFLORA Raf. unifoUa 1808. — 

 Malaxis unifolia Mx. ophioglossoides Pers. 

 Mierostylis ophioglossoides N. Beck Slc. — 

 Stem harly angular, leaf ovate subcordate acute 

 raceme oblong and lax, peduncles filiform ; se- 

 pals linear, inner filiform, lip emarginate tooth- 

 ed in the middle. — From Newyork to Carolina, 

 rare, Estival, in shady groves under trees. — 

 Stem 6 to 10 inches high, flowers greenish. — 

 Seen alive 1802. Figures in Pluk. aim. 435. f. 

 4 and my Autikon 41. Ic. rar. 60. 



2. AcR. oBTTJsiFOLiA Raf. Scape angular, 

 leaf cordate elliptical obtuse, raceme lax elong- 

 ate, peduncles filiform ; sepals oblong, inner lin- 

 ear, lip furcate or hastate, toothed in the mid- 

 (]le. — In Alabama and Georgia, probably the 



