452 ORCHIDACE.E. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 



them. Pollen-masses 4, in one row (2 in each cell), cohering by pairs at the 

 apex, waxy, without any stalks or elastic connecting tissue. — Little herbs from 

 solid bulbs, producing simple stems or scapes, which bear 1 or 2 leaves, and a 

 raceme of minute greenish flowers. (Name composed of piKpos, little, and crrvXls, 



a column or style.) 



1. M. naonophyllos, Lindl. Slender (4' -6' high); leaf solitary, 

 sheathing the base of the stem, ovate-elliptical; raceme spiked, long and slender; 

 pedicels not longer than the flowers; lip triangular-halberd-shaped, long-pointed. — 

 Cold wet swamps, N. New England to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 July. (Eu.) 



2. M. opliioglossoitles, Nutt. Leaf solitary near the middle of the 

 stem, ovate, clasping ; raceme short and obtuse ; pedicels much longer than the flow- 

 ers; lip obtusely auricled at the base, 3-toothed at the summit. — Damp woods ; 

 more common southward. — Plant 4' - 10' high. July. 



14. 1,1 PARIS, Richard. Twatblade 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, linear, or the latter thread-like, spreading. 

 Lip flat, entire, often bearing 2 tubercles above the base. Column elongated, 

 incurved, margined at the apex. Anther, &c. as in the last. — Small herbs, with 

 solid bulbs, producing 2 root-leaves and a low scape, which bears a raceme of few 

 purplish or greenish flowers. (Name from \inap6s,fat or shining, in allusion to 

 the smooth or unctuous leaves.) 



1. 1L. liliifoim, Richard. Leaves 2, ovate ; petals thread-like, reflexed ; 

 lip large (^' long), wedge-obovate, abruptly short-pointed, brown-purplish. (Malaxis 

 liliifolia, Swart:.) — Moist woodlands : commonest in the Middle States. June. 



2. !,. ICRSelii, Richard. Leaves 2, elliptical-lanceolate or oblong, sharp- 

 ly keeled ; lip obovate or oblong (2" long), mucronate at the incurved tip, yellow- 

 ish-green, shorter than the linear unequal petals and sepals. (Malaxis Correana, 

 Barton.) — Bogs and wet meadows, New England to Penn., Wisconsin, and 

 northward : rare. June. (Eu.) 



15. CORALLORIUZA, Haller. Coral-root. 



Flower ringent ; the oblong or lanceolate sepals and petals nearly alike, the 

 lateral ascending and the upper arching : lip spreading above, with 2 projecting 

 ridges or lamella; on the face below, slightly adherent at the base to the 2-edged 

 straigbtish column, and often more or less extended into a protuberance or short 

 spur coalcsccnt with the summit of the ovary. Anther 2-lipped, terminal and 

 lid-like. Pollen-masses 4, obliquely incumbent, soft-waxy or powdery, free. — 

 Brownish or yellowish herbs, destitute of green foliage, with much-branched 

 and toothed coral-like root-stocks (probably root-parasitical), sending up a sim- 

 ple scape, furnished with sheaths in place of leaves, and bearing small and dull- 

 colored flowers in a spiked raceme. (Name composed of kc-joWiov. coral, and 

 pi£a, root.) 



* Lip 34obed (the middle lobe very much largest.) and with 2 distinct lamellce or plaited, 

 ridges on tin face, wlitish, usually spotted or mottled with crimson. 



