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scales at the base ; upwards from the leaves the whole plant is of a 

 bright green, unless when growing in very shady situations, when it 

 assumes a paler colour. As a garden plant it is readily cultivated, 

 but is more interesting as a botanical specimen than for any beauty 

 of foliage or flowers that it possesses. 



L. cordata (heart-leaved iw/tra).— Eootstock like the preceding, but always 

 smaller, and usually less tufted. Stem four to eight inches in length, with two 

 opposite, heart-shaped, acute, and slightly cordate leaves. 



Flowers few and small, of a gi-een colour, the lip usually tinged with brown or 

 dull red ; sepals and jjetals greenish-brown. Lip linear, bifid, with two teeth at 

 the base, and of a greenish-brown or })urple colour. Column without any 

 hood-like ajjpendage as in L. ovata. 



This plant differs considerably from the latter species not only in 

 size but shape and colour of flower. It is a native of mountain 

 heaths, usually in boggy ground, where it seldom exceeds six inches 

 in height, though more frequently three-fourths tluit size. The 

 leaves, which are heart-shaped and slightly cordate at the base, are 

 usually less than an inch in length, but very broad in proportion, 

 and of the same deep green as L. ovata. Stem very fragile, angled, 

 and surmounted by a few very small brownish-green flowers. This 

 is in reality a mountain plant occurring in woods and moors, 

 especially under heather, and sparingly distributed in a few such 

 situations in England, Scotland, and Ireland. On the Dublin 

 mountains, at 700 feet, it grows on clrT/ heathy knoUs, and 

 generally under the shelter of the heather itself — information 

 kindly furnished me by Mrs. Burbidge of the Trinity College 

 Botanical Gardens. It occurs in one or two stations along the Pass 

 of Nant Froncon, and near Llanrwst, both in Wales. 



Genus 11. — Goody era. — A small - gi'owing plant, with ovate and petioled 

 leaves. Flower - spike slender and somewhat spirally arranged. Lip not 

 enveloijing the column, as is the case in Spiranthes, with which genus it other- 

 wise nearly agrees. 



There is one species, G. repens. 



G. repens (creeping Goody era). — Eootstock branched, creeping, with a few 

 short, downy radicles or fibres. Stem 4 to 8 inches in length, rather slender, 

 glandular pubescent upwards. Leaves evergreen, acute, stalked, and of a deep 

 green, occasionally speckled or marbled. Flower spike in .spiral series, or one- 

 sided as in Spiranthes, downy, and issuing from the centre of the tuft of leaves. 

 The flowers are small, yellowish, or cream- white, and about a dozen on a spike. 

 Bracts longer than the ovary. 



In Britain, this plant occurs very sparingly, having only been 

 found in a few Scotch counties, principally in the Highlands. It is 

 an occupant of old mossy woods and forests, where amongst peaty 

 earth and decayed pine pins it creeps about, although never increas- 

 ing to a great extent. As in Spiranthes atitumnalis, the flowers of 

 the Goodyera are arranged in a onesided spike, which is tolerably 



