ORCHIDE: 141 
powdery; stem covered with brown sheathing scales. 
Not alpine. 
NV. nidus-avis, L., Bird’s-nest Orchis; stem thick, 
flowers about 4 in., grey-brown, root a mass of succulent 
stout interlacing fibres; woods; Switzerland, Pyrenees, 
local. 
ES. - LISTERA, (Dt. 
Flowers small, green; sepals and petals spreading; lip 
deflexed, not spurred; lateral lobes oO or very small; 
pollen-masses 2, powdery ; rostellum elongated ; leaves 2, 
opposite. 
L. ovata, Br., Twayblade; stem 1-1} ft., bearing two 
ovate leaves, flowers yellowish-green, lip linear, bifid; 
bushy places, frequent. JL. cordata, Br.; stem 3-4 in., 
slender, bearing two cordate leaves, flowers yellowish- 
green, lip 3-fid, with two small linear lobes; mountain 
woods, rare; Switzerland, Jura, Vosges, Pyrenees. 
16. GOODYERA, Br. 
Flowers small, in spiral spikes; lateral sepals deflexed; 
lip decurved, saccate at the base; pollen-masses 2, cohe- 
rent ; rostellum beaked ; root-stock creeping. 
G. repens, Br.; flowers white, few, leaves ovate, net- 
veined, the lower ones stalked, root-stock branched ; pine- 
forests, rare. 
17. EPIPOGUM, Gmel. 
Leafless saprophytes; sepals and petals spreading; 
lip 3-lobed, with a short stout spur; rostellum 0; pollen 
granular. Not alpine. 
EL. Gmelini, Rich. (aphyllum, Sw.); flowers few (3-5), 
