492 



I 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



cundis; labello trifido, 1 lip three-cleft, crenu 



crenulato. 



late. 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 74. Pursh, 2. p. 589. Nutt. 2. p. 190. 



Walt 



^sti 



Roots tuberous, creeping. Stem eight to twelve inches high, pubescent 

 tow-ards the summit. Leaves of the stem subulate, acute, scarcely more than 

 scales; of the root linear lanceolate, nine to ten inches long, generally de- 

 caying before the plant begins to flower. Flowers in a compact spiral 

 spike. Bracteal leaves pubescent, nearly as long as the flower. Segments 

 of the perianth white, connivent, nearly equal in length. The lip cren- 

 ulate, indistinctly lobed. 



Grows in damp soils. 



Flowers through the summer. 



2. Cernua. 



N, foliis lanceolatis, I Leaves lanceolate 

 trinervibus; caule va- I 3-nerved; stem sheath 



oblong 



9 



? 



gjnato^ spica oblonga ed; 



? 



spike 



f 



densifloraj floribiis re- densely flowered; flow- 



curvato cernuis; label- | ers recurved^ nodding; 



a- 



oblongo, integerri 



oblong, entire 



mo, acuto. 



J 



cute. 



Sp. pL 4, p. 75. Pursh, 2. p. 589. Nutt. 2. p. 190. 

 Limodorum Autumnale, Walt, p. 221. 

 Ophrys Cernua, Mich. 2. p. 158. 



Very similar to the preceding species, from which it diflTers by a more 

 crowded spike, and by larger flowers. 



This genus merits in this country a farther examination. The number of 

 varieties distinguished by the size of the flowers, by the extended or con- 

 tracted spires of the spike, by the period of flowering, would lead to a sus- 

 picion that we had many species, but in the occasional examinations I have 

 given them, I have been able to discover no permanent distinctions. 



Grows in damp soils. 



Flowers throueh the summer. 



