50 GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Corallonhiza. 

 420. CORALLORRHIZA. Coral-root. 



Hall. Hist. V. 2. 159. Br. in Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. 209. Comp. 

 ed. 4.142. 



Cal. superior, of 3 lanceolate, spreading, almost equal, per- 

 manent leaves. Pet. 2, oblong, or lanceolate, ascending, 

 nearly the length of the calyx. Nect. with more or less 

 of a spu7' whicYi is either prominent or not, the lip more 

 or less three-lobed, rounded at the end, rather shorter 

 than the calyx. Ajit/i. terminal, hemispherical, decidu- 

 ous, of 2 close cells, depositing the four masses of pollen 

 upon the stigma. Germ, obovate-oblong. Style shorter 

 than the petals, unconnected with them, incurved ; con- 

 vex behind ; channelled in front. Stigma obsolete, be- 

 neath the anther in front. Caps, elliptic-oblong. Seeds 

 numerous, extremely minute, roundish, each with a long, 

 lax, white, chaffy twiic. 



Root tuberous, fleshy, branched, horizontal, beset irregu- 

 larly with shortish, simple, fibrous radicles. Leaves none, 

 except a few sheathing scales, on the simple, radical 

 stalk. Cluster erect, of several bracteated particoloured 

 Jlowers. Spur obtuse, sometimes hardly discernible, al- 

 ways shorter than the germen. Capsule pendulous. Na- 

 tives of Europe, North America, and Nepaul. Six 

 species are known. 



1. C. innata. Spurless Coral-root. 



Spur of the nectary short, not distinct from the slightly 

 three-lobed lip. Root copiously branched. 



C. innata. Br. us above. 2^9. Comp.ed. 4. 145. Hook. Scot. 255. 



Land. t. 142. 

 C. n. 1301. Hall. Hist. V. 2. 159. t.44. 



Cymbidium corallorrhizon. Sw. Orch. 77. fVilld. Sp. PL v. 4. 109. 

 Ophrys corallonhiza. Linn. Sp. PL ]339. LapL Tour v. 1.222. 



f. 223. FL Br. 932. EngL BoL v. 22. L 1547. Lightf. 523. /. 23. 



Fl. Dan. t.45\. Gunn. Norveg. p. 1 . 54. p. 2. t. 6. f. 3. 

 Orobanche radice coralioide. Bauh. Pin. 88. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 



231. f. 9. Mentz. PugilL t. 9. 

 O. sveonum, radice coralloides, flore albo. Rudb. Elys. v. 2. 234. f. 1 6. 

 O. spuria, seu corallorrhiza. Rupp. Jen. ed. 1. 284./. 

 Rhizocorallon. Hall, in Rupp. Jen. ed. 3. 301 . 

 Dentaria coralioide radice. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 120./. Pann. 450. f. 



Besl. Hart. Eyst. cestiv. ord. 4. t. 4./. 4. 

 D. minor. Ger. Em. 1585./. 

 In marshy umbrageous woods in Scotland, but rarely. 



