444 ORCHLDACEJE. (ORCHIS FAJIILY.) 



producing 2 oblong-obovate shining leaves (3 -5' long) and a few-flowered 

 4-angled scape (4'-7'high); bracts leaf-like, lanceolate ; sepals and petals all 

 vaulted, pink-purple, the ovate undivided lip white. — On hills in rich woods, 

 New England to Kentucky and (especially) northward. May. 



2. GIMNADENIA, R.Brown. Naked-gland Orchis. 



Flower as in Orchis. Anther-cells parallel; the approximate glands naked 

 (whence the name, from yvpvos, naked, and db)r]v, gland). 



1. G. tridcsitata, Lindl. Stem slender (6'- 12' high), with a single 

 oblong or oblanceolate obtuse leaf below, and 2 or 3 small ones like bracts 

 above ; spike 6 - \2-flowered, oblong ; lip wedge-oblong, truncate and with 3 short teeth 

 at the apex ; the slender and slightly club-shaped spur curved upwards, longer 

 than the ovary. — Wet woods ; rather common, especially northwards. July. 

 — Hoot of few fleshy fibres. Flowers small, pale yellowish-green. 



2. G. flava, Lindl. Stem several-leaved (15' high), the 1 or 2 lower 

 leaves elongated, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; the others becoming smaller and 

 bract-like ; spike densely many-flowered, oblong-cylindrical ; lip orate, a little crcnate 

 or wavy-margined, shorter than the awl-shaped depending spur. — Wet pine bar- 

 rens of New Jersey, Virginia, and southward. July. — Root of very fleshy 

 fibres, one or two of them tuber-like. Flowers orange-yellow, closely set. (Or- 

 chis flava & inteo-ra, Nutt. Habenaria Elliottii, Beck.) 



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3. PLATANTHERA, Richard. False Okchis. 



Flower as in Orchis, &c. (lateral sepals spreading, except in No. 5) ; but the 

 anther-cells diverging below, and the 2 naked glands widely separated (whence 

 the name, from 7rAarvy, wide, and avdnpa, for anther). 



§ 1 . Scape l-leaved at the base : spur not exceeding the lip : root of thick fibres. 



1. P. obfusfgfa, Lindl. (Dwarf Orchis.) Leaf obovate, obtuse; 

 spike loosely 5-10-flowered; upper sepal broad and rounded; petals bluntly 

 triangular ; lip linear, entire, bearing 2 small tubercles at the base, about the length 

 of the curving spur. — Cold peat-bogs and high mountains, Maine to N. New 

 York and L. Superior. June. — Scape 5' -8' high. Flowers |' long. (Fu.) 



2. P. rotuudifolia, Lindl. (Small Round-leaved Orchis.) Leaf 

 round-ovate or orbicular (2' -3' wide); spike several-flowered; lip 3-lobed, larger 

 than the ovate petals and sepals, the middle lobe larger and inversely heart- 

 shaped. — Along the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick (Mr. Good- 

 rich), and northward. — Scape 8' high. Leaf, and sometimes the white flowers, 

 spotted with purple : lip £' long.- 



§ 2. Scape 2-leaved at the base: spur very long: lip entire: roots thickened. 



3. P. orbictilata, Lindl. (Large Round-leaved Orchis.) Leaves 

 very large (4' -8' wide), orbicular, spreading flat on the ground ; scape bracted, 

 bearing many spreading greenish-ivhite flowers in a loose raceme ; upper sepal or- 

 bicular, the lateral ovate ; lip narrowly linear-spatulate, drooping, nearly thrice 

 rhe length of the ovate reflexed petals ; spur curved, slender (l|'~ 2 long), grad- 



