348 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



has perished, springing from a bulb, often living through the 

 winter, long-petioled, broad, acute, plaited, tinged with purple 

 underneath. Bulbs connected by horizontal offsets. Titne, 

 July, August. 



Flowers on a scape, with several small scales at base, nod- 

 ding, on pedicels without bracts, making a terminal, loose 

 raceme 5 to 10 inches long. Sepals ^^nd petals, long and nar- 

 row, the lip 3-lobed, not exceeding the petals, prolonged back- 

 ward into a thread-like spur twice as long as the flower. 



This singular orchis, with its insect-like form, is a rare and 

 pleasurable find in the woods from Vermont to Michigan, and 

 southward to Florida and Louisiana. 



97. Many-flowered Coral-root 



Corallorhlza multiflora. — Family, Orchid. Color, purplish 

 or brownish. Leaves, none. Tif?u', July to September. 



A root-parasitic or saprophytic plant, with no true leaves, 

 but sheathing scales at the base of the flower-scape. It grows 

 from I foot to 20 inches high, and the spike of blossoms is 

 rather dense. The flower, less than ^ inch long, has a deeply 

 3-lobed lip, with a short, stubby, yellowish spur and ear-like 

 side sepals. Lip white, spotted with purple. Root branching, 

 coral-like in shape. 



X" 98. Red Lily. W^ood Lily. Philadelphia Lily 



Ulium Philadelphicum. — Family, Lily. Color, orange-red, 

 with darker, brownisii red spots inside. Leaves, long, narrow, 

 whorled on the stem, 4 to 8 in a whorl, and some leaves scat- 

 tering. Tifne, July, August. 



Flowers, i to 5, erect, the 6 equal segments of the perianth 

 narrowed into claws, spreading, but not drooping backwards. 

 Capsules, large, 2 inches long, filled with many seeds. This 



