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16. GOODYERA, R. Brown RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN. 
Sepals and petals nearly equal, the two lateral sepals including the base of the 
sessile lip, the upper one connivent with the petals. Lip concave or sac-like, 
contracted above the middle into a recurved and channelled point. Anther at- 
tached to the dorsal apex of the short and free column. Pollen-masses 2, entire, 
powdery. — Stems leafy or scape-like, from a slender creeping rootstock, bearing 
a spike of small white flowers. 
* Stem scape-like, bracted: lip spurless: column manifest: anther round, beakless, 
radical leaves clustered. 
1, G. pubescens, R. Brown. Scape pubescent; radical leaves thick, ovate, 
discolored and reticulated above, contracted into a spreading petiole; spike lan- 
ceolate, densely many-flowered, pubescent; bracts lanceolate ; sepals and petals 
roundish; lip sac-like, ending in a short, ovate point; stigma rounded. — Deep 
‘shady woods, Florida, and northward. August.— Scape 1° high. Leaves 2! 
long. Spike X- 4! long. 
2. G. repens, R. Brown. Low; scape slender, pubescent; radical leaves 
ovate or oblong-ovate, reticulated ; spike slender, loosely few-flowered, 1-sided or 
somewhat spiral; bracts linear-lanceolate ; lip sac-like, ending in an oblong 
point; stigma 2-toothed. — Shady woods, on the mountains of North — 
and northward. August. — Scape 5!— 8! high. Leaves T long. ' iiu 
* * Stem leafy: lip spurred: column i inconspicuous : anther ovate, beaked. 
3. G. quercicola, Lindl. Stem ascending; leaves thin, ovate or belong 
ovate, acute, on slender petioles, which are dilated, membranaceous, and sheath- 
ing at the base; spike short, oblong, densely flowered ; bracts scarious, oblong- 
ovate, mostly shorter than the flowers; sepals and petals oblong, obtuse; lip 
concave, ending in a broadly-ovate acuminate and recurved point ; spur pouch- 
like, shorter than the ovary ; stigma 2-lobed. — Low shady woods, Florida, and 
Westward. August.— Plant tender, 6’-12’ high. Leaves and spike 1’ long. 
17. LISTERA, R. Brown. 
Sepals and petals alike, spreading or reflexed. Lip longer than the sepals, 
2-cleft. Column short. Stigma with a rounded beak. Anther ovate, attached 
to the dorsal summit of the column. Pollen-masses 2, powdery. — Stems low, - 
from clustered fibres, bearing two opposite sessile leaves, and a loose raceme of 
Small greenish flowers. 
l. L. australis, Lindl. Leaves ovate or chiens, closely sessile; 
Taceme smoothish, few - several-flowered ; bracts minute; lip linear, 3-4 times 
as long as the sepals, deeply 2-cleft, the divisions filiform ; column very short. — 
Wet shady woods, Florida, and northward. Tu — Stem 4/-8' high. Leaves 
¥- 1’ long. 
ga Is convallarioides, Hook. Toni koy cordate or round 
Tüceme pubescent, few-flowered ; bracts half. as long as the pedicels ; lip oblon 
Porat, t lobed at the apex, and 2-toothed at the base, twice see "e * 
