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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 499 



2. PULCHELLUS. 



C. foliis 1 adicalibus, I Leaves radical, nar- 

 angusto - lanceolatis, row lanceolate, nerved; 

 nervosis; scapo 6 — 10 scape 6—10 flowered; 

 floro; labello erecto, lip erect, tapering at 

 basi attenuato, lamina base, the lateral seg- 

 expansa, disco conca- ments expanding, the 

 vo, piloso. I disk concave, hairy. 



Nutt. 2. p. 194. 



Cymbidium Pulchellura, Sp. pi. 4. p. 105. Pursli, 2. p. 592. 

 Limodorum Tuberosum, Mich. 2. p. 159. 

 Ophrys Barbata, Walt. p. 221. 



Roof tuberous, nearly round. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, erect, 

 naked, glabrous. Lea/ generally one, sheathing the base of the stem, (but 

 showing around its own base the vestiges 6f other leaves, perhaps those of 

 former years,J eight to ten inches long, scarcely one wide, nerved, acute, 

 erect, somewhat rigid. Flowers resupine? rather distant, in a terminal 

 spike. Bracteal leaf small, very acute. Segments of the perianth lanceo* 

 late, the two lateral exterior ones dblique, the interior rather narrower. La- 

 lellum on the upper side of the perianth (is not the flower as in Cranichis 

 resupine?) about as long as the petals, attenuate and distinctly three-nerved 

 or ribbed along the claw, very much dilated at the summit, very obtuse, con- 

 spicuously bearded just where it begins to contract, margin entire, column 

 declining frofti the lip, curved, tapering to the base, bearing two dilated 

 wings near the summit. Anther^ as in all o( this division, received into a 

 small cavity at the summit of the column, attached behind by a short jointed 

 pedicel. 



Flowers incarnate, large for this class, very handsome. 

 Var. Graminifolia. 



yet offers no prominent mark of distinction. Its flowers are scarcely more 

 n^f the size of the preceding, the leaves one to two lines wide, the bracteal 

 leaves acuminate, and the column I think comparatively shortef. It flowers 



earlier. 

 Grows in damp soils. 



grasses 



J delights to grow on old decaying 

 ingled with mosses and aquatic 



May — J 



The second in pine barrens. 

 Flowers April— May. 



