ORCHID FAMILY. 479 
4. Corallorhiza multiflora Nutt. Large Coral-root. (Fig. 1142.) 
Corallorhiza multiflora Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 
3:138. pl. 7. 1823. 
Scape 8/-20’ high, purplish, clothed with sev- 
eral appressed scales. Raceme 2/—8/ long, 10- 
30-flowered; flowers 6’’-9’’ high, brownish pur- 
ple, short-pedicelled; sepals and petals some- 
what connivent at the base, linear-lanceolate, 
about 3’ long; lip white, spotted and lined with 
purple, oval or oyate in outline, deeply 3-lobed, 
crenulate, the middle lobe broader than the 
lateral ones, its apex curved; spur manifest, yel- 
lowish; capsule ovoid or oblong, 5/’-8’’ long, 
drooping. 
In woods, Nova Scotia to British Columbia, south 
to Florida, Missouri and California. A form with 
yellow scapes and flowers occurs in Nebraska (ac- 
cording to Williams). July-Sept. 
5. Corallorhiza striata Lindl. Striped Coral-root. (Fig. 1143.) 
Corallorhiza striata V,indl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 534. 
1840. 
Corallorhiza Macraet A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 453. 1856. 
Scape stout, purplish, 8’-20’ high. Raceme 2/-6/ 
long, 10-25-flowered. Flowers dark purple; sepals 
and petals narrowly elliptic, striped with deeper 
purple lines, 6’’-7’’ long, spreading; lip oval or ob- 
ovate, entire or a little undulate, somewhat nar- 
rowed at the base, about as long as the petals; spur 
none, but the perianth has a gibbous saccate base; 
capsule ellipsoid, reflexed, 8’’-10’’ long. 
In woods, Ontario and northern New York to Michi- 
gan, Oregon and California. July. 
14. TIPULARIA Nutt. Gen. 2: 195. 1818. 
Slender scapose herbs, with solid bulbs, several generations connected by offsets, the 
flowers in a long loose terminal raceme. J,eaf solitary, basal, unfolding long after the flow- 
ering season (in autumn), usually after the scape has perished. Scape with several thin 
sheathing scales at the base. Flowers green, nodding, bractless. Sepals and petals similar, 
spreading. Lip 3-lobed, produced backwardly into a very long spur. Column erect, wing- 
less or very narrowly winged. Anther terminal, operculate, 2-celled. Pollinia 4, ovoid, 
waxy, 2 in each anther-sac, separate, affixed to a short stipe, which is glandular at the base. 
[Latin, similar to 77pu/a, a genus of insects, in allusion to the form of the flower. ] 
Two known species, the following of eastern North America, the other Himalayan. 
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