small lanceolate leaves on upper part of stem. Raceme of 

 greenish-white flowers, from three to ten in number. In 

 bloom the first week in August. 



Lysiella obtusata, Pursh 



Scape or stem naked above, one-leaved at base, 5 to 9 

 inches high. Leaf abovate or spatulate, oblong. Flowers 

 greenish or white, 5 to 15 in a loose spike. Habitat in bogs. 



LARGE ROUND-LEAVED ORCHID 



Lysias orhiculata Pursh 



Leaves two, large oval or orbicular, sometimes attain- 

 ing eight inches in length and seven and one half inches in 

 width, lying on the ground. Stem slender, sometimes 25 to 

 28 inches in height with a spike of white greenish flowers, 

 rather open and often eight to ten inches long. Habitat in 

 the hardwood forests. July, August and September. Rather 

 rare. 



Lysias macrophylla, Goldie 



This plant is very closely related to orhiculata but is 

 larger. Flowers in June and July and is more generally 

 distributed in mixed and hardwood forests in New Sweden, 

 Woodland and Perham. 



HOOKER'S ORCHID 



Lysias Hookeriana, Gray 



Stems stout, with two orbicular leaves lying on the 

 ground. It will sometimes attain a height of 16 inches with 

 a spike of small, greenish flowers, five to seven inches long. 

 May, June and July. A common plant in the spruce and 

 hemlock forests, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Northern 

 Maine. 



WHITE FRINGED ORCHID 

 Blephariglottis blephariglottis, Willdenow 



The white fringed Orchid is a very rare plant in Aroos- 

 took County. I found one plant on Eric Olsson's farm in 

 New Sweden, in July 1904. Three fine plants were collected 

 at Salmon Brook Lake in Perham the first week in July, 

 1907; and at Large Mud Lake, located in Westmanland and 

 Perham, the last week of July, 1917, I collected in full bloom, 

 a hundred or more of these very beautiful flowers. 



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