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CL ASS II. MONECO'TYLEDONOUS or ENDO- 

 GENOUS PLANTS. 



Stems with no distinction of wood pith and bark; 

 leaves mostly parallel veined and sheathing 1 at 

 base, generally alternate. Parts of the flowers 

 usually in 3's. Seeds coming up with a single 

 leaf or cotyledon. 



Order 108. HYDROCHARIDA CEAE. Frog's 

 Bits. 



Elode a. Canaden sis. Waterweed. Anacha ris 

 Canadensis of 5th Ed. Slow streams and ponds. 



Vallisne ria spiralis. Tape grass, Eel-Grass. 



Order 110. ORCHIDA CEAE. Orchids. 



Flowers perfect, irregular and often of strange 

 and striking forms. Roots often tuberous. 

 LIP ARIS. Truagblade. Leaves 2; flowers several, 

 G. P. on a scape. Moist lands. 



L. liliifo lia. Leaves ovate; fls. Br. P. 



Aplec trum hecma le. Putty-root, Adam and Eve. 

 Leaf, one only, oval, veined, G. above, Pi. 

 below; fls. G. Br. Woods. 



SPIRAN THES. Ladies' Tresses. Stem leaves small; 

 fls. W., winding about stem forming a spike. 



S. cer nua. Leafy; fls. fragrant. Wet lands. 



S. grac ilis. Small, smooth. Hilly Woods. 



Goodye ra pubes cens. Leaves netted with white; 

 fls. G. W.; 6 to 12 in. Deer Park Tp. River 

 bluffs. 



Calopo gon pulchel lus. Leaf one, grass-like scape 

 bearing several P. fls., 10 to 12 in. Bogs. Rs. 



Pogo nia ophioglossoi des. One large narrow- 

 oblong leaf and a smaller one above it. fl. gen- 

 erally one, P. 



In the following the flowers are spurred. All are 

 rare. 



