140 THE FLORA OF THE ALPS 
£1. CORALLORHIZA, 1. 
Brown leafless saprophytes; flowers few, small; upper 
sepal and petals connivent; lip short, deflexed, with a 
very small spur; pollen-masses 4; stem with sheathing 
scales; root of branched fleshy interlacing fibres. 
C. znnata, Br., Coral-Root; stem slender, greenish- 
white, flowers yellowish, lip spotted with red, root coral- 
like; moist woods; Switzerland, Jura, Vosges, Dauphiny, 
Pyrenees, rare. 
12; LIPARIS: JRich, 
Sepals and petals spreading, linear; lip entire; pollen- 
masses 4; stem leafless. Not alpine. 
L. Leseliz, Rich. (Sturmia Leseliz, Rchb.); stem 4-8 
in., swollen at the base, root-leaves usually 2, elliptic- 
lanceolate; peat-bogs; Switzerland, Jura, Tirol, rare. 
13. MALAXIS, Sw. 
Flowers small, green; sepals and petals spreading, the 
latter very small; lip minute, concave; pollen-masses 4; 
leaves few. 
M. paludosa, Sw.; stem 1-4 in., swollen at the base, 
leaves few, fringed with bulbils, flowers minute, yellowish- 
green, lip erect; swamps, very rare; Einsiedeln, Vosges. 
M. monophylla, Sw.; flowers minute, greenish, lip acu- 
minate, stem triangular, with usually one leaf; moist 
meadows; Switzerland, Tirol, rare. 
14. NEOTTIA, L. 
Brown leafless saprophytes; sepals and petals in- 
curved ; lip with a saccate base, bifid; pollen-masses 2, 
