454 ORCHIDACEX. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 
2. M. Floridana, n. sp. Leaves 2, near the base of the 3-angled stem, 
unequal, ovate, or elliptical, mostly acute, sheathing; raceme slender, acute, 
elongated in fruit, many-flowered ; pedicels longer than the flowers; sepals ob- 
long, spreading, with the margins revolute ; petals filiform, reflexed, twisted ; lip 
round-auriculate-cordate, abruptly narrowed and entire at the apex, depressed at 
the sinus; capsule oblong or obovate. — Wet shady woods, Apalachicola, Flor- 
ida. July and Aug.— Stem 6’-12! high. Leaves 1'-4' long. Flowers 1" 
wide. 
2. LIPARIS, Richard. TwaxBLADE. 
Sepals spreading. Petals linear or filiform, spreading or reflexed. Lip entire, 
flat, often with two tubercles above the base. Column long, semi-terete, incurved, 
margined at the apex. Pollen-masses 4, collateral, united by pairs at the apex. — 
Low herbs, from bulbous roots. Leaves 2, sheathing the base of the scape-like 
stem. Flowers racemed, greenish or purplish. 
1. L. liliifolia, Richard. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, sheathed at the base; 
scape 3-angled, 10 - 20-flowered, longer than the leaves; sepals linear, whitish ; 
petals filiform, reflexed, yellowish; lip large, wedge-obovate, concave, abruptly 
pointed, brownish-purple. (Malaxis liliifolia, Swartz.) — Low shady woods and 
banks in the upper districts, Georgia, and northward. June and July. — Scape 
5/~10/ high. Leaves 2/~4/ long. Lip 3’ long. : 
3. CORALLORHIZA, Haller. Corat-roor. 
Sepals and petals alike, oblong or lanceolate, connivent. Lip clasping the 
base of the straight 2-edged column, spreading and concave above, 2-ridged near 
the base, spurless, or with the spur adnate to the ovary. Anther lid-like. Pol- 
len-masses 4, incumbent. — Low dull-colored leafless herbs, with coral-like roots, 
sheathed stems, and racemose flowers. 
1. C. odontorhiza, Nutt. Root pinnately branched and toothed; stem 
tumid at the base, slender above ; sheaths 3, elongated ; racemes 10 — 15-flowered ; 
sepals and the rather shorter spotted petals erect, lanceolate, obtuse ; lip enun 
longer than the sepals, distinetly clawed, the spreading limb oval, concave, 
3-nerved, with two tooth-like ridges in the throat, white spotted with purple; the 
margins crenulate below the middle and involute above ; margins of the col- 
umn thickened and incuryed at the base ; capsule oval, nodding. — Shady woods, 
Florida, and northward. Feb. and March. — Stem 8/-16' high. Lip 4" long. 
2. C. micrantha, n.sp. Root toothed; stem low, rigid; sheaths d 
abruptly pointed ; raceme 6- 19-flowered ; flowers very small a" -13" fong), 
erect ; sepals and petals nearly equal, linear, erect; lip short-clawed, entire, 0. ? 
concave, denticulate on the margins, without teeth or ridges, shorter than the 
sepals, white spotted with purple; capsule obovate, nodding. — Shady woods 
. Florida and Geor Aug. and Sept. — Stem 3/- 6' high. Te 
- 3. C. innata, R. Brown. Root branching; stem slender; sheaths 3; the 
e | leaflike at the apex; raceme 5- 12-flowered ; lip 
