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ORCHIDACEAS. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 
“ ead0W9 > *<=■; New England to Penn., rare, but commoner 
I ^* r j / ne ; - fetem ***■ Flowers fewer, paler (or lilac- 
n^e rf t ^ h"? 3 3 °, r 4 ,“,T S larS6r than ,hose of No - 14 ! th e more am- 
f ! * e 'P t t0 1 broad, with a deeper and nearly capillary crowd- 
ringe, different-shaped and fringe-toothed petals, &c_Although 
the flowers of the original O. fimbriata, M., from Canada and New¬ 
foundland, are not quite so large as in the New England O. grandiflo- 
ra, Vigel yet it is certain from the detailed description that it belongs 
here, and not to the preceding species, as I formerly thought, when I 
deemed the two not specifically distinct. 
16. P. peramdena, Gray. (Fringeless Purple Orchis ) 
Cower leaves oblong-ovate, the upper lanceolate; spike oblong or 
cylindrical, densely flowered; lower sepals round-ovate; petals round- 
ed-obovate, raised on a claw; divisions of the large lip very broadly 
wedge-shaped, irregularly eroded-toothed at the broadly dilated sum¬ 
mit, tAe lateral ones truncate, the middle one 2-lobed. (P. fissa, Lindl 
o fissa, Pursh, not of Muhl.) - Moist meadows and banks, Penn, 
Ohio, and southward. Aug. — Stem 2° - 4° high. Flowers large and 
very showy, violet-purple ; the lip paler and very ample, i> long: its 
divisions minutely and variably toothed, or sparingly cut along the 
terminal edge, but not at ail fringed. 
lO. ABETHVSA, Gronov. Arethusa. 
Flower ringent; the lanceolate sepals and petals nearly alike, 
united at the base, ascending and arching over the column. Lip 
dilated and recurved-spreading towards the summit, bearded in¬ 
side. Column adherent to the lip below, petal-like, dilated at the 
apex. Anther lid-like, terminal, of 2 approximate cells : pollen- 
masses granular, 2 in each cell. - A beautiful low herb, consist¬ 
ing of a sheathed scape from a globular solid bulb, terminated by 
a single large purple and sweet-scented flower. Leaf solitary, 
linear, nerved, hidden in the sheaths of the scape, protruding from 
the uppermost after flowering. (Dedicated to the Nymph Arethusa.) 
f 1- A. bulbdsa, L. — Bogs, rather rare. May. — Flower l f - 
2' long, very handsome. 
11* POGONIA, Juss. Pogonia. 
Flower irregular, the sepals and petals separate and somewhat 
spreading. Lip crested or 3-lobed. Column free, elongated, 
club-shaped, wingless. Anther terminal, stalked : pollen-masses 
2 (one in each cell), farinaceous. — Stem 1-5-leaved. Flowers 
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