308 ENDOGENOUS PLANTS 



summit. Pollinia 4, collateral, cohering by pairs at apex. Bulb 

 solid ; scape bearing 1 or 2 leaves ; flowers in a terminal raceme, 

 greenish. 



1. M. OphlogloSSOides, Nutt. Leaf solitary near the middle 

 of the scape, ovate, clasping ; raceme short ; pedicels longer than 

 the flowers. 

 OPHIOGLOSSUM-LIKE MICROSTYLIS. 



Plant yellowish-green. Scape 3 or 4 to 9 inches high, angular, smooth, sheath- 

 ed at hase. Leaf 1 to 2% inches long, mostly rather acute. Raczme 1 to 2 inches 

 in length, ohlong, obtuse, many of the flowers abortive ; pedicds % to % an 

 inch long, rather crowded at the summit ; bracts small, lance-ovate. Lip of the 

 flower erect, obtusely auricled at base, 3-toothed at summit. Capsule about % of 

 an inch long, obovoid-oblong, on a slightly clavate angular pedicel. 

 Hob. Moist low grounds, and thickets : not very common. Fl. July. Fr. Oct. 



417. MP'ARIS, Richard. 



[Gr. Liparos, fat, or shining ; from the unctuous shining leaves.] 

 Petals sub-linear, narrow. Lip dilated, often bearing 2 tubercles 

 above the base. Column elongated, incurved, margined. Pollinia 

 4, collateral. Bulb solid ; leaves 2, radical, opposite ; scape naked ; 

 flowers racemose, purplish, or yellowish-green. 



1. L. liliif'jliil, Rich. Leaves elliptic-ovate, shorter than the 

 scape; lip cuneate-obovate, abruptly acuminate, brownish-purple. 

 LILY-LEAVED LIPARIS. Tway-blade. 



Leaves 2 to 6 inches long, spreading. Scape 3 to 6 inches high, angular, the 

 angles often margined. Flowers rather large, in a loose oblong terminal raceme ; 

 lip as long as the straw-colored perianth-lobes. Capside oblong, angular, about 

 % of an inch in length. 

 Ifdb. Moist woodlands : frequent. Fl. June. Fr. Sept. 



*!. Ij, I^tJeseli i. Rich. Leaves lance-oblong, as long as the scape ; 

 lip oblong, rnucronate and incurved at apex, yellowish-green. 

 L. Correana. Spreng. $FL Cestr. ed. 2. p. 512. 



LCESELIUS'S LlPARIS. 



Leaves 3 to 6 inches long, rather erect. Scape 3 to 6 inches high, sulcate-angled, 

 with the angles often margined. Flowers rather small, erect, or almost appressed, 

 ia a terminal raceme; lip shorter than the perianth-lobes. Capsule elliptic-ob- 

 long, erect, about % an inch in length. 

 Jfab. Moist meadows ; East Goshen : rare. Fl. June. Fr. Sept. 



2. Plants leafless, or with a single radical leaf, purplish-tawny; sepals and petals 

 nearly alike, connivent and somewhat ringent. 



418. CORALJLORHrZA, Hatter. 



[Gr. Korallion, coral, and Rhiza, root; from its coral-like roots.] 

 Lip recurved-spreading, 2-ridged, more or less produced at base 

 into a spur-like protuberance which is adnate to the summit of the 

 ovary. Anther terminal, opening transversely, 2-lipped ; pollinia 

 4, obliquely incumbent. Rhizoma branching and coral-like ; scape 

 with sheaths instead of leaves ; flowers racemose, small, brownish 

 and white, with purple spots. 



