8o FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



grows near the base of the flower scape. Flowers in a spike, 

 not crowded, greenish white. 



These are not the finest of our rein-orchids, for their flowers 

 are rather small and insignificant. (The common names are 

 taken from Britton and Brown's Illustrated Northern Flora of 

 the United States and Canada.) 



go. White-fringed Orchis 



Habenaria blepharigloitis.— Family, Orchis. Color, white. 

 Lcai'cs, the lower ones lance-shaped, quite long ; the upper, 

 bract-like. Time, July. 



A beautiful milk-white orchid. The lip is variously cut and 

 fringed, giving the whole spike of flowers a soft, lace-like appear- 

 ance. The stem, smooth, with bracts rather than leaves above 

 the middle, grows from 12 to 15 inches tall. The pure color of 

 the heads of flowers makes them at once conspicuous in the 

 swamps, cranberry marshes, etc., where they grow, often in great 

 profusion. 



gi. Yellow-fringed Orchis 



//. cilidris is not so common. It is a very elegant, stately 

 flower, 2 feet or less high, with leaves like the white-fringed 

 orchis. The flowers are large, copiously and conspicuously 

 fringed, orange-color, with the spike densely flowered. 



g2. Ragged Orchis 



H. Idccra has greenish-yellow flowers, not so pretty as its 

 brighter-colored relatives, i to 2 feet high. 



g3. Smaller Purple-fringed Orchis 



H. psycbdes bears many flowers, in a full, rich crimson 

 spike. The lip is fan-shaped, 3-divided, all the parts being 

 deeply fringed. The delicate blossoms are fragrant, and the 

 leaves, like so many of this genus, pass above into bracts. 

 Time, July, August. 



