ORCHID ACE^. (orchis FAMILY.) 505 



cate threads. — Scape from a small solid bulb, sheathed below by the base of 

 the grass-like leaf, uaked above, bearing several large flowers. Bracts minute. 

 (Name composed of Ka\6s, beautiful, aud irdiyujv, beard, from the bearded lip.) 

 1. C. pulchellus, R. Br. Leaf linear; scape about 1° high, 2-6-flow- 

 ered ; flowers 1' broad, pink-purple ; lip as if hinged at the insertion, beautifully 

 bearded toward the dilated summit with white, yellow, and purple club-shaped 

 hairs. — Bogs, Newf. to Fla., west to Minn, and Mo. 



14. POGONIA, Juss. 



Flower irregular, the sepals and petals separate. Lip crested or S-lobed 

 Column free, elongated, club-shaped, wingless. Anther terminal and lid-like, 

 stalked; pollen-masses 2 (one in each cell), powdery -granular. (Uwyupias 

 bearded, from the lip of some of the original species.) 



§ 1. Sepals and petals neurit/ equal and alike, pale rose-color, sometimes white. 



1. P. ophioglossoides, Nutt. Root of thick fibres ; stem (6 - 9' high) 

 bearing a single oval or lance-oblong leaf near the middle and a smaller one or 

 bract near the terminal flower, rarely one or two others with a flower in the 

 axil; flower V long, sweet-scented; lip spatulate, appressed below to the col- 

 umn, beard-crested aud fringed. — Bogs, Newf. to Fla., west to N. Ind. and 

 Minn. June, July. (Japan.) 



2. P. pendula, Lindl. Stem (3 - 8' high) from oblong tubers, bearing 

 .3 to 7 alternate ovate-clasping very small (3-6") leaves, the upper 1-4 with 

 drooping flowers in their axils on slender pedicels; perianth \' long, narrow; 

 lip spatulate, somewhat 3-lobed, roughish or crisped above, crestless. — Damp 

 woods, N. Eng. to Fla., west to Wise, and Mo. 



§ 2. Sepals linear, dingi/ or brorcnish, longer and much narroicer than the erect 

 or connivent petals ; lip 3-lobed at the apex, crested down the middle, beard' 

 less ; Jloicers solitari/ (or rarely a pair), terminal ; root a cluster of fibres. 



3. P. divaricata, R.Br. Stem (1-2° high) bearing a /a/zceo/afe/ea/m 

 the middle, and a leafij bract next the flower, which is recurved on the ovary; 

 but the sepals ascending or diverging, spatulate-linear, longer than the lan- 

 ceolate-spatulate pointed and flesh-colored petals, these about l-l|^'long. — 

 Wet pine-barrens, N. J. to Fla. June, July. 



4. P. verticillata, Nutt. Stem (6 -12' high) naked, except some small 

 scales at the base and a ichorl of mostly 5 obovate or obovate-oblong sessile leaves 

 at the summit ; flower dusky purplish, on a peduncle longer than the ovary and 

 capsule ; sepals more than twice the length of the petals, narrowly linear, spread- 

 ing from a mostly erect base (l|--2' long) ; lip with a narrow crest down the 

 middle. — Low woods, N. Eng. to Fla., west to Ind. and Wise; rather rare, 

 especially eastward. May, June. Glaucous when young. Fruit-stalk erect, 

 about 1-^' long, more than half the length of the leaves. 



5. P. afiinis, Austin. Somewhat smaller than the preceding; leaves 

 paler and rather narrower ; flowers (not rarely in pairs) yellowish or greenish ; 

 peduncle much shorter than the ovary and capsule ; sepals but little longer than 

 the petals, tapering to the base ; lip crested over the Avhole face and on the 

 middle of the lobes. — Low woods, S. W. Conn., S. New York, and N. New 

 Jersey ; rare. 



