468 ORCHIDACEiE. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 
Scape 1° high. Flowers dingy greenish-brown and purple; the lip 
whitish and speckled, nearly ^ long. 
5. TIPUL.ARIA, Nutt. Crane-fly Orchis. 
Sepals and petals spreading, oblong, the latter rather narrower. 
Lip 3-lobed, prolonged underneath into a thread-like spur twice or 
thrice the length of the flower : middle lobe linear, a little wavy, 
as long as the petals, the side lobes short and triangular. Column 
narrow and wingless. Anther lid-like, terminal; pollen-masses 
2, each 2-parted, connected by a linear stalk with the transverse 
small gland. — Herb with solid bulbs connected horizontally, pro¬ 
ducing a single ovate nerved and plaited leaf on a slender petiole, 
and a long and naked slender scape (10' -18' high), with 1 or 2 
sheaths at the base, bearing a many-flowered raceme of greenish 
flowers tinged with purple. (So named from a fancied resem¬ 
blance of the flowers to insects of the genus Tipula.) 
1* T* discolor, Nutt. — Pine woods, Martha’s Vineyard, Oakes, 
and Deerfield, Massachusetts, Prof. Hitchcock. “Vermont,” Beck. 
Parma, Monroe county, New York, Dr. Bradley. Otherwise only 
known in the Southern States. July. — Spur almost V long. 
6. CALYPSO, Salisb. Calypso. 
Sepals and petals nearly similar, ascending, spreading, lanceo¬ 
late, pointed. Lip larger than the rest of the flower, sac-shaped, 
inflated, 3-lobed, the middle lobe bearded above. Column erect, 
broadly winged and petal-like. Anther a little below the apex: 
pollen-masses 2, each 2-parted, sessile on the membranaceous 
gland. — A low bog-herb, the solid bulbs producing a single peti- 
oled ovate or slightly heart-shaped thin leaf, and a short scape, 
sheathed below, bearing a large and showy (variegated purple and 
yellow) flower. (Name from the goddess Calypso.) 
1. C. borealis, Saiisb.— Cold bogs and wet woods, the bulbs 
resting in moss, Vermont, Carey , Northern New York, Dr. Wood , Mr. 
Hough, and N. Michigan; thence northward. May. — Avery rar6 
and beautiful plant. Scape 3'-5' high. Lip long, somewhat like 
that of a Lady’s Slipper. 
7 . ORCHIS, L. Orchis. 
Flower ringent; the sepals and petals nearly equal, all of them, 
or all but the 2 lower sepals, converging upwards and arching 
