ORCHIDACEJE. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 455 . 
somewhat hastate, 3-lobed above the base, with two distinct ridges on the face, 
white spotted with crimson ; sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, brownish ; cap- 
sule oval or elliptical. — Damp shady woods, Georgia, and northward. Sept. 
and Oct. — A vernal species in the Northern States. 
4. APLECTRUM, Nutt. PurrY-noor. 
Sepals and petals alike, linear-oblong, erect. Lip spurless, short-clawed, 
3-lobed and 3-ridged at the throat. Column straightish, cylindrical. Anther 
lid-like, slightly lateral. Pollen-masses 4.— Root tuberous, proliferous, very 
glutinous within, first bearing a single large plaited and petioled leaf, which is 
persistent through the winter, and afterward a 3-sheathed scape, with a raceme 
of yellowish flowers at the summit. 
1. A. hiemale, Nutt. (Corallorhiza hiemalis, E/l. Limodorum trifidum, . 
Michz.) — Rich woods, chiefly in the upper districts, and northward. April and 
May. — Leaf oval, many-nerved, 4'-6' Jong. Scape 12/ - 15! high, 10 — 15-flow- 
ered. Sepals and petals yellowish, tipped with brownish purple. Lip whitish, 
spotted, the middle lobe rounded and crenulate on the margins. _ Capsule re- 
flexed. 
5. EPIDENDRUM, L. Tzzr-Oncnis. - 
Sepals and petals nearly equal and alike, widely spreading. Lip with the 
claw wholly or partly adnate to the elongated margined or winged column, en- 
tire or parted, mostly rigid or tubercled on the face. Spur none, or adnate to 
the ovary. Column prolonged at the- apex into a toothed or fimbriate cup. 
Anther lid-like, somewhat 4-celled. Pollen-masses 4, lenticular, stalked. — 
Stemless herbs, from a tuberous or creeping rhizoma, clinging to the bark of 
trees by thick and matted roots. Leaves sheathing, rigid, perennial. Scape 
sheathed or bracted, bearing a raceme of greenish and purplish flowers. 
1, E. conopseum, Ait. Scape few-many-flowered ; leaves 1 — 3, coria- 
ceous, lanceolate, acute, spreading ; bracts subulate, the lowest somewhat leafy ; 
sepals spatulate, obtuse; with revolute margins; petals linear-spatulate, obtuse ; 
lip 2-tubercled at the base, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes rounded and crenulate, the 
middle one notched at the apex, the claw wholly adnate to the slightly margined 
column. — On various trees, but chiefly on Magnolias, Florida to South Caro- 
lina. Ang.— Scape 2'-8' high. Leaves 1'-3' long. Bsc mag 4n- 5" — 
green tinged with purple. 
2 E. venosum, Lindl. Scape tumid at the base, 5— 7-flowered ; leaves 
2, linearlanceolate, abruptly pointed; bracts short, ovate; sepals and petals 
Spatulate-lanceolate, acute; lip 3-parted, 2-crested in the middle; the lateral 
lobes oblong, acute; the middle one wedge-shaped, notched at the apex, nl 
claw partly adnate to the 2-winged column. — South Florida, Dr. a 
m. 1° high, invested with numerous short whitish sheaths. L 
