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and sliining. Scape 1 — 2 feet high, bearing the flowers in a spiciform 

 raceme. Flowers 17 — 20, greenish.white, spreading. Pedicels 3 — 4 

 lines long. Bractece lanceolate, shorter than the flowers. Sepals con- 

 spicuously nerved ; the upper one nearly orbicular, erect ; the lateral 

 ones ovate, and very oblique, so as to appear somewhat semilunar, 

 spreading. Petals smaller than the sepals, ovate-lanceolate, oblique, 

 reflexed. LijJ linear, obtuse, longer than the ovariuin, depending and 

 recurved. Spur three times the length of the ovarium, incurved, clavate. 

 Anther two-horned, two-celled, cells approximate. Ovarium i — J of an 

 inch long, a little curved. 



Hab. Woods throughout the Northern states, but some- 

 what rare. It is seldom found except in the deep shade of the 

 Coniferse. Flowers in July. 



21. H. HooKERiANA, Torrcij, Herb. H. orbiculata, 

 Goldie, I. c. Hook. Exot. Fl. 145. nou Piirsh. 



Scape 8 — 12 inches high, bearing at the base two orbicular, oval or 

 obovate leaves. Leaves fleshy, sinooth and shining, 3 — 4 inches long. 

 Spike 4 — 6 inches in length, somewhat loosely flowered. Flowers 10 — 20, 

 yellowish-green, erect or a little spreading, subsessile. Bractece lanceo- 

 late, nearly as long as the flowers. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute ; the 

 upper one connivent with the petals, erect ; the lateral ones deflexed, so 

 as to meet posteriorly. Petals a little shorter than the sepals, linear, 

 very acute, dilated at the base. Lip lanceolate, acuminate, scarcely as 

 long as the ovarium, standing forward and somewhat incurved. Spur 

 straight, acute, depending, about twice the length of the ovarium. Cells 

 of the anther linear-clavate, widely separated at the base by the broad 

 sligmatic surface. Ovarium 4 — I of an inch in length, straight. 



Hab. In similar situations with the preceding, but much 

 more abundant in the northern part of the state. I am not 

 aware that it has been found south of the Highlands of the 

 Hudson river, where it occurs sparingly. Flowers in June. 



Obs. These two very distinct species of Habenaria are still 

 generally confounded by our botanists, although they were very 

 clearly distinguished by Mr. Goldie, in his paper on " New 

 and rare Plants detected in Canada during the year 1819," 

 published in the 6tli volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical 

 Journal. There can, however, be little doubt that H. macro- 



