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terminal, loosely flowered raceme; petals linear, somewhat reflexed; lip 

 obovate, pointed, a little shorter than the petals and sepals, its tip incurved; 

 capsules about one-half of an inch long, wing-angled. 



In wet thickets, springy banks, and bogs or boggy meadows, Nova 

 Scotia to Saskatchewan, south to Alabama and Missouri. Flowering from 

 late May to July and sometimes later. 



Calypso 



Cytherea biilbosa (Linnaeus) House 

 {Calypso boreal is Salisbury) 



Plate 43a 



Stem or scape 3 to 7 inches high from a perennial bulb one-half of an 

 inch or less thick with coralloid roots. The scape bears two or three loose 

 sheathing scales and at the base a single round-ovate leaf, i to 2 inches 

 long, blunt or pointed at the apex and rounded or heart-shaped at the base, 

 the petiole i to 2 inches long. Flower showy, solitary, i to i^ inches broad, 

 at the summit of the scape, variegated with purple, pink and yellow ; petals 

 and sepals similar, nearly equal, linear, erect or spreading, each with three 

 longitudinal purple lines. Lip saccate, large, two-divided below, spreading 

 or drooping, with a patch of yellow woolly hairs. Column erect, broadly 

 ovate and petallike, shorter than the petals, bearing the lidlike anther 

 just below the summit. 



In bogs and cold Arbor Vitae swamps, Labrador to Alaska, south to 

 Maine, New York, Michigan, California and in the Rocky mountains to 

 Arizona and New Mexico. Also in Europe. 



One of the rarest and at the same time most beautiful of our native 

 Orchids, appearing much like a small Cypripedium (Lady's-slipper). In 

 New York it has been found in several localities in southern Herkimer, in 

 Lewis, Oswego and Onondaga counties. The writer found it several years 

 ago in Lodi or Tamarack swamp near Syracuse, but the place has since been 

 obliterated by the growth of the city. For the illustration used here we 

 are indebted to Edward A. Eames of Buffalo. 



