132 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
GENUS XV—CORALLORRHIZA. Jaller. 
Perianth subherbaceous, the five upper segments incurved, con- 
nivent; labellum about as long as the other segments, turned down- 
wards, with a short spur or swelling at the base often adherent to the 
summit of the ovary, with two callosities on the inside near the base, 
3-lobed, the lateral lobes minute, the terminal one emarginate. Column 
erect, rather short, semicylindrical. Anther terminal, resembling 
a lid; pollen-masses 4, obliquely incumbent, free ; pollen waxy or 
subpulverulent. 
Herbs with the rootstocks branched like coral, fleshy; the stem 
with scarious sheaths, but destitute of green leaves. Flowers small, 
greenish-brown, spreading or drooping, in a lax spikelike raceme. 
The name of this genus is derived from copa\\vor, coral, and pita, a root. 
SPECIES I-CORALLORRHIZA INNATA. 2& Br. 
Puate MCCCCLXXXVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. XD. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 289. 
Ophrys Corallorrhiza, Zinn. Sm. Engl. Bot. No. 1547, 
Flowers 3 to 12, in a lax spikelike raceme ; pedicels much shorter 
than the ovary. Labellum oblong, 3-lobed between the base and the 
middle, the lateral lobes minute-triangular, the apical lobe emarginate 
or indistinctly 3-toothed; spur very minute, adnate to the ovary. 
In boggy woods. Rare. It occurs near Irvine, Ayrshire; Ravelrig 
Toll Moss, and near Currie, Edinburgh; near Dunfermline, Fifeshire ; 
near Culross, and formerly also in the woods of Methven Castle, Perth- 
shire; Sands of Barry, Forfar; near Contin, and Head of Little Loch 
Broom, Ross; and in Moray. 
Scotland, Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootstock fleshy, branched, resembling coral, pale yellowish. Stem 
$ to 10 inches high, with a few sheaths, but no green leaves. Flowers 
spreading-ascending, afterwards horizontal; fruit drooping. Bracts 
very minute. Pedicels scarcely distinguishable from the narrowed 
base of the ovary until the fruit is formed. Perianth segments about 
1 inch long, the upper sepal lanceolate, connivent with the petals; 
the lateral sepals strapshaped, bent downwards close to the labellum, 
which is about the same length, and has usually two very minute lobes, 
one on cither side near the base; spur very minute, adnate to the 
