112 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



This plant has a cluster of leaves at the base only; these 

 are covered with a network of white veins and frequently 

 also have white blotches on them. The flowers grow in a 

 bracted spike, are greenish-white, and have a very hairy 

 stalk. 



Epipactis repens, or Small Rattlesnake Plantain, has also 

 peculiar white-veined leaves, but in this species they grow 

 up the stalk as well as at its base. The whole plant is 

 smaller than E. dccipiens, and its insignificant flowers grow 

 only on one side of the stem, which is much bracted and 

 hairy. The name " Rattlesnake " applies to the resem- 

 blance between the curiously veined leaves and the body of 

 a snake. This plant frequently grows in decaying wood. 



HEART-LEAVED TWAYBLADE 



Listera cordafa. Orchid Family 



Root: fleshy-fibrous. Stems: very slender. Leaves: sessile, cordate, 

 ovate, mucronate. Flowers: in racemes, minute pedicels bracted; sepals 

 and petals oblong-linear, lip narrow, the segments setaceous and ciliolate. 



A small orchid with two large leaves growing midway up 

 its slender stem, by which it may always be readily recog- 

 nized. The flowers are purplish-green, very tiny, and are 

 set in a small raceme at the top of the stalk. It grows in 

 the cool woods. 



Listera convallarioidcs, or Broad-lipped Twayblade, also 

 has the same two distinguishing stem-leaves, which, how^- 

 ever, are rounder than in the foregoing species, while its 

 flowers are yellowish-green, fairly large, and possess a 

 broad lip with two lobes at the delicate apex. 



The Twayblades present a strong contrast to the Coral 

 Roots. They are conspicuously green and healthy of leaf. 



