GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



487 



_ Grows in dry grassy places on the high mountains of Virginia and Caro- 

 lina. Pursh. 



Flowers June — July. 



9. SPECTABILIS. 



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O. labello obovato, I Lip obovate, undivi 



indiviso, crenato, retu- ded, crenate 



so; petalis recti's, late 



retuse 



ralibus 



petals straight, the lat- 



longioribusj eral ones long; h 



orn 



cornu clavato germine clavate, shorter than 

 breviore; bracteis flore the germ; bracteas Ion 



f 



longioribiis; 

 phyJIo. 



caule 



a 



ger than the flower; 

 stem leafless. 



jx 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 56. Pursh, 2. p. 587. 

 O. Humilis, Mich. 2. p. 155. 



Root palmate mostly two-leaved; scape acutely pentangular, sometimes 

 producmg a leaf, few flowered; bracteas large and lanceolate; spur thick and 

 obtuse, compressed, subclavate, about the length of the germ. Segments of 

 the petaloid calyx all connivent and adhering, never expanding, of a bluish 

 purple; hp white, broad ovate and entire. Pollinia clavate, pedicellate, 

 concealed withm the lateral cucullate cells of the genitaliferous column 

 grams of the pollen agglutinated by the base. Nuttall. 



Grows in the mountains of Carolina. Michaux. 



flowers May — ^June. 



10. FUSCESCENS? 



, O. labello ovato, ba- I Lip ovate, toothed 



SI dentato, petalis pa- at base, petals expand- 

 tentib ' ' - 



lato, g 

 dine. 



us; cornu subu- j ing; horn subulate, as 



erminis 



longitu 



long as the germ. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 33. Pursh, 2. p. 587. Nutt. 2. p. 189. 



sizfnrfU T *^^'^^ '""^^^^ ^'Sli, leafy, glabrous. Leaves large for the 

 scatt A' ^ ' lanceolate, glabrous, sheathing at base. Flowert rather 

 yellm''^ p'" u *^'^"*'"^^ *P''^*^- RacMs angled. Corolla small, (brownish 

 lon» ^J^^i^sh,) the labellum longer than the other segments. Horn not as 

 ""S as the germ. 



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