480 ORCHID ACE^E. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 



the throat, white spotted with purple ; the margins crenulate below the mid- 

 dle and involute above; capsule oval, nodding. Shady woods. Feb.- 

 March. Stem 8' - 16' high. Lip 4" long. 



3. C. micrantha, Chapm. Root toothed ; stem low, rigid ; sheaths 2, 

 abruptly pointed ; raceme 6-12-flowered; flowers very small (1" - 1" long), 

 erect ; sepals and petals nearly equal, lanceolate, erect ; lip short-clawed, en- 

 tire, denticulate on the margins, without teeth or ridges, shorter than the 

 sepals, white spotted with purple ; capsule obovate, nodding. Shady woods, 

 Florida and Georgia. August - Sept. Stem 3' - 6' high. 



4. APLECTRUM, Nutt. PUTTY-ROOT. 



Sepals and petals alike, liuear-oblong, erect. Lip spurless, short-clawed, 

 3-lobed and 3-ridged at the throat. Column straightish, cylindrical. Anther 

 lid-like, slightly lateral. Pollen masses 4. Root tuberous, proliferous, very 

 glutinous within, first bearing a single large plaited petioled leaf, which is 

 persistent through the winter, and afterward a 3-sheathed scape, with a raceme 

 of yellowish flowers at the summit. 



1. A. hicmalc, Xutt. Rich woods, chiefly in the upper districts. April 

 May. Leaf oval, many-nerved, 4' -6' long. Scape 12'-15' high, 10-15- 

 flowered. Sepals and petals tipped with brownish purple. Lip whitish, 

 spotted, the middle lobe rounded and creuulate on the margins. Capsule 

 reflexed. 



5. EPIDENDRUM, L. TREE ORCHIS. 



Sepals and petals nearly equal and alike, widely spreading. Lip with the 

 claw wholly or partly actuate to the elongated margined or winged column, 

 entire or parted, mostly rigid or tubercled on the face. Spur none, or ad- 

 nate to the ovary. Column prolonged at the apex into a toothed or fimbriate 

 cup. Anther lid-like, somewhat 4-celled. Pollen masses 4, lenticular, stalked. 

 Stemless herbs, from a tuberous or creeping rhizoma, clinging to the bark 

 of trees by thick matted routs. Leaves sheathing, rigid, perennial. Scape 

 sheathed or bracted, bearing a raceme of greenish and purplish flowers. 



1. E. COnopseum, Ait. Scape few -many-flowered; leaves 1 - 3, cori- 

 aceous, lanceolate, acute, spreading; bracts sui ulato, the lowest somewhat 

 leafy; sepals spatnlate, obtuse, with re volute margins : petals linear-spatulate, 

 obtuse; lip 2-tubercled at the base, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes rounded and 

 crenulate, the middle one notched at the apex, the claw wholly adnate to the 

 slightlv margined column. On various trees, but chiefly on Magnolias, Flor- 

 ida to South Carolina. August. Scape 2'- 8' high. Leaves T-3' long. 

 Flowers 4" - 5" long, green tinged with purple. 



2. E. Tampense, Lindl. Scape tumid at the base, 5 - 7 -flowered ; 

 leaves 2, linear-lanceolate, abruptly pointed ; bracts short, ovate ; sepals and 

 petals spatulate-lauceolate, acute; lip 3-parted, 2-crested in the middle; the 

 lateral lobes oblong, acute ; the middle one wedge-shaped, notched at the apex, 

 the claw partly adnate to the 2-winged column. South Florida Scape 1 

 high, invested with numerous short whitish sheaths. Leaves 4' -5' long. 

 Flowers 8" long. 



