276 Bog-Trotting for OrcHids 



only, as Salisbury wrote, to "cover and conceal" the stigma 

 of the species, but also to preserve a poetical analogy between 

 this botanical goddess, so difficult of access, and the secluded 

 Goddess of Silence, whose Isle of Ogygia was fabled to be 

 miraculously protected from observation by navigators.^ 



Small bogland orchid with solid bulbous and coralloid roots. 

 Anther i. Labellum shoe-shaped, saccate, 2-parted at the 

 apex. Sepals and petals free, similar in texture. Flowers i, 

 large, terminal pendulous, bracted, resembling a I^ady's Slipper 

 iCypripedium). Linnaeus wrongly designated this species Cyp- 

 ripedium bulbosum in 1753. Stem or scape 3-6 inches high. 

 Leaf I, hyemal, appearing as an autumnal leaf about Septem- 

 ber 2d, 2 sheathed above by 2-3 scales. Anther lid-like below 

 the summit of column. PoUinia 2, 2-parted, without caudi- 

 cles, waxy, sessile, on a thick gland. Seed-capsule about Yz 

 inch long, many-nerved. 



Continental Range — From Alaska, Labrador, southward, to 

 Middlebury, Vermont, and doubtfully reported for Pelham, Mas- 

 sachusetts ; westward to California and New Mexico. First 

 collected in the United States in the State of Vermont, at 

 Charleston and Morgan by the botanist Carey, who resided at 

 Bellows Falls in 1831-1833. A monotypic species ranging in 

 cooler portions of north temperate zone, in Europe, Asia, and 

 North America, assuming slight varietal changes in different 

 regions. 



North American species I 



New England species i 



Hoosac Valley species o 



New England species : 



I. C. bulbosa (Linnaeus) Oakes, 1 753-1842. 



I.— CALYPSO BULBOSA (Linnaeus) Oakes, 1753-18428 



Beautifui, CA1.YPS0— Northern Cai^ypso 



The specific name, bulbosa, refers to the bulbous root of this 

 species, which was originally confounded by Linnaeus in 1753 

 as a bulbous Cypripedium, and later placed under its generic 

 designation Calypso by Salisbury in 1807. 



^ Salisbury, Pard. Lond., pi. 89. 1807. 

 ^ Henry Baldwin, Orchids of New England, 93. 1894. 

 ^Species not reported for Hoosac Valley region, although 

 native of Vermont. 



