ORCHID FAMILY. 481 
1. Hexalectris aphyllus (Nutt.) Raf. Crested Coral-root. (Fig. 1146.) 
Bletia aphylla Nutt. Gen. 2: 194. 1818. 
Hexalectris sqguamosus Raf. Fl. Tell. 4: 48. 1836. 
Hexalectris aphylius Raf.; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 501. 
1890. 
Scape stout, 8’-20’ high, its upper scales lanceo- 
late, the lower sheathing and truncate or acute. 
Raceme 4/-7’ long, 5-12-flowered; flowers large, 
brownish purple, 1’ high or more; pedicels short, 
stout; sepals and petals narrowly elliptic, obtuse or 
acutish, spreading, striped with purple veins, 6’/— 
9’ long, longer than the broad lip; middle lobe of 
the lip rounded or crenulate, the lateral ones 
| shorter, rounded; column slightly spreading at the 
summit, shorter than the lip; capsule ellipsoid, 
nearly 1’ long, the fruiting pedicels 4/’-5’’ long. 
In rich woods, North Carolina to Kentucky and Mis- 
souri, south to Florida and northern Mexico. Aug. 
7s APLECTRUM Nutt. Gen. 2: 197. 1818. 
Scapose herbs, from a corm, produced from the one of the previous season by an offset, 
the scape clothed with several sheathing scales. Leaf solitary, basal; developed in autumn 
or late summer, broad, petioled. Flowers in terminal racemes, the pedicels subtended by 
small bracts. Petals and sepals similar, narrow. Lip clawed, somewhat 3-ridged, spur 
none. Column free, the anther borne a little below its summit. Pollinia 4, lens-shaped, 
oblique. [Greek, meaning without a spur.) 
A monotypic North American genus. 
1. Aplectrum spicatum (Walt.) B.S.P. Adam-and-Eve. Putty-root. 
(Fig. 1147.) 
Arethusa spicata Walt. Fl. Car. 222. 1788. 
Cymbidium hyemale Willd. Sp. Pl. 4: 107. 1805. 
Aplectrum hyemale Nutt. Gen. 2: 198. 1818. 
Aplectrum spicatum B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 5r. 
1888. 
Scape glabrous, 1°-2° high, bearing about 3 
scales. Leaf arising from the corm, at the side 
of the scape, elliptic or ovate, 4’-6/ long, 14/-3/ 
wide, usually lasting over winter; raceme 2/—4/ 
long, loosely several-flowered; flowers dull yel- 
lowish brown mixed with purple, about 1/ long,: 
short-pedicelled; sepals and petals linear-lance- 
olate, about 34’ long; lip shorter than the petals, 
obtuse, somewhat 3-lobed and undulate; column 
slightly curved, shorter than the lip; capsule 
oblong-ovoid, angled, about 10’ long. 
In woods and swamps, Ontario to the Northwest 
Territory and Oregon, south to Georgia, Missouri 
and California. Several old corms usually remain 
attached to the latest one. May-June. 
