GYNANDRIA MONANDBIA 



491 



1. PUBESCENS. Willd. 



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G. foliis radicalibus 

 ovatis, petiolatis, reti- 

 culatis, scapo vaginato 

 floribusque pubescenti- 



bus 



? 



labello 



o V ato, 



aciiminato 

 vatis. 



5 



petalis 



o- 



5 



scape 

 and 



with 



Its 



Leaves radical, o 



vate, petiolate, reticii 



late 



sheath 



pubescent; 



acuminate 



vate. 



flowers 

 ovate, 



? 



petals 



o 



/ 



V 



Nutt. 2. p. 190. 



Neottia Pubescens, Sp. pi. 4. p. 76- Pursh, 2. p. 590. 



Satyrium Repens, Mich. 2. p. 157- 



Root creeping. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, resembling a scape, 



bearing only a few scattered scale-like flowers, very pubescent towards the 



summit. Root leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, reticulately veined, five to 



seven nerved, attenuated at base to a petiole about an inch long. Flowers 



in a terminal spike. The upper segment of the perianth vaulted, covering 



the column, (the labellum ovate, acuminate, Willd.) speckled with purple. 



Grows in the middle and upper districts of Carolina and Georgia, in damp 

 soils. 



Flowers Julv. ' 



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NEOTTIA. Swartz 



Corolla ringens, pe- I Corolla ringent,ithe 



talis duobus inferiori- two lower petals affixed 

 bus sub labello imber- I under the unbearded 



lip; interior petals con- 

 nivent. Column with- 



bi affixis; petalis inte- 

 rioribus conniventibus. 



Columna aptera. Pol- \ out wings. Pollen fa 

 len farinaceum. 



rmaceous. 



1. TORTILIS. 



N. foliis radicalibus | Leaves of the root 

 linearibus, glabris, a- | linear, elabrous, acute; 



scape sheathing,* flow- 



secund 



cutis; scapo 

 floribus spiraliter se 



vaginato; 



ers 



spirally 



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