474 
ORCHIDACEAE. 
9. PERAMIUM Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 301. 
[GoopyERa R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 5: 197. 
1812. 
1813.] 
Herbs with bracted erect scapes, the leaves basal, tufted, often blotched with white, the 
roots thick fleshy fibres. 
united with the petals into a galea. 
Flowers in bracted spikes. 
Lip sessile, entire, roundish ovate, concave or saccate; 
Lateral sepals free, the upper one 
without callosities, its apex reflexed. Anther withont a lid, erect or incumbent, attached to 
the colnmn by a short stalk; pollinia one in each sac, attached to a small disk which coheres 
with the top of the stigma, composed of angular grains. 
About 25 species, widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions. 
Spike one-sided. 
Spike not one-sided. 
Flowers 2'’—3'’ long; galea ovate, its short tip usually not recurved. 
Flowers 3'’-4’’ long; galea ovate-lanceolate, its long tip recurved. 
Satyrium repens I. Sp. Pl. 945. 1753- 
Goodyvera repens R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed. 
5: 198. 1813. 
Peramium repens Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1: 
gor. 1812. 
Scape 5/-10’ high, glandular-pubescent, 
bearing several small scales. Leaves ovate, 
the blade 6’/-15’’ long, 4/’-8’’ wide, some- 
what reticulated or blotched with white, 
tapering into a sheathing petiole spike short, 
1-sided; flowers greenish white, 2’/-3/’ long; 
galea concave, ovate, with a short spreading 
‘or slightly recurved tip; lip saccate, with a 
narrow recurved or spreading apex; column 
very short; anther 2-celled; pollinia not pro- 
longed into a caudicle. 
In woods, Nova Scotia to Alaska (?), south to 
Florida and Minnesota and Colorado. Also in 
Europe and Asia. Ascends to 5000 ft. in Vir- 
ginia. July—Aug. 
2. Peramium pubéscens (Willd. ) 
(Fig. 
1. P. repens. 
2. P. pubescens. 
3. P. Menziesit. 
MacM. 
ine) 
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain. 
Neottia pubescens Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 76. 1805. 
Goodyera pubescens R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. 
2,5: 198. 1813. 
Peramium pubescens MacM. Met. Minn. 172. 1892. 
Usually larger than the preceding species, 
scape 6-20’ high, densely glandular-pubescent, 
bearing 5-10 lanceolate scales. Leaves I/—2’ 
long, 8’/-1’ wide, strongly white-reticulated, 
oval or ovate; spike not 1-sided; flowers 2’/—3/7 
high, greenish white; lateral sepals ovate; galea 
ovate, its short tip usually not recurved; lip 
strongly saccate with a short broad obtuse 
recurved or spreading tip. 
In dry woods, Newfoundland to Ontario and 
Minnesota, south to Florida and Tennessee. As- 
cends to 4ooo ft. in North Carolina. July-Aug. 
