ANGIOSPERMJi, MONOCOTYLEDONES. 



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repetition is not needful here. The Monandrse may be divided into four tribes, the 

 Ophrydeoi, Neottiece, VandecG, and Epidendreoe. 



The 02->hrydeoi include most of the British and European Orchids, which are not 



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Pig 41h —Anijio^LUMi ebwneiiin epiphjtic on a tiee tiunk (Al hI u I'-tnr). 



epiphytes but terrestrial, with swollen tuberous roots, including- Orchis, Ophrys, 

 Gijmnadenia, Hahenaria, and the South African Disa. 



The Neottiece also include some European forms, Gephalanthera, Listera ovata 

 (the Twayblade), &c., and a series of colourless forms of saprophytic habit, which 

 are destitute of foliage, including- Epipogium aphyllum (fig. 257 i^, p. 226), Neottia 



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