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and turned downwards. Flowers of a purer white than in the two 
preceding species. 
S. gemmipara approaches very closely to the North American S. cer- 
nua, but has the stem and leaves and spike usually shorter, the lateral 
sepals less distinctly connivent with the upper sepal and petals, the 
labellum more narrowed immediately below the apex, the callosities less 
prominent, blunter, wholly adnate, and not hairy; the column much 
broader under the stigmatic surface, and the beak of the rostellum 
shorter and split. Dr. Asa Gray considers that S. gemmipara is iden- 
tical with S. Romanzoffiana. See “ Proceedings of the Botanical Con- 
gress, 1866,” p. 176. 
The figure in “English Botany Suppl.” of No. 2786, presents no 
resemblance whatever to the Irish plant. Our plate is taken from 
that given in the “ Botanical Magazine,” by permission of the pub- 
lisher. 
Three-ranked Ladies’ Tresses. 
The species of this genus are commonly known by the name of Lady's traces, which 
appears to be a corruption of the proper name, which was doubtless originally “ Our 
Lady’s tresses.” 
GENUS IX.—_GOODYERA. Brown. 
Perianth coloured; the upper 3 segments connivent and often par- 
tially adherent; the exterior lateral ones spreading, not oblique, but 
covering the labellum at the base; labellum turned downwards, note 
spurred at the base, without callosities on the lower part, but concave, 
saceate at the base, erect at the apex, entire, not contracted in the 
middle. Column short, prolonged into a 2-toothed (or rarely entire) 
rostellum. Anther subsessile, applied to the rostellum; pollen-masses 
obovate, without stalks, affixed to a common gland; pollen-grains 
loosely cohering. 
Herbs with creeping brittle fleshy rootstocks and ovate radical 
leaves. Flowers small, usually glandular, downy, white, in a few- 
ranked spike which is generally unilateral, and slightly spiral. 
This genus of plants was named in hononr of John Goodyer, a Hampshire botanist 
and correspondent of Gerarde. 
SPECIES I—GOODYERA REPENS. 2B. Br. 
Prats MCCCCLXXV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLX XXII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1549. 
Satyrium repens, Linn. Sm. Engl, Bot. ed. i. No. 289. 
Leaves ovate or elliptical-oval, concolorous. Flowers in a unilateral 
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