152 COMMON CANADIAN \VILD PLANTS. 



4. H. hyperbo'rea, R. Br. Spike many-flowered, 'omj ami 

 dense. Flowers small, greenish. Lip lanceolate, entir<, about the 

 Mime length as the /< n<l< r incurred *i>nr. Stem 6-24 niches hi-li, 

 very leafy, the lea re.* lanceolate and erect, and the bracts longer 

 than the flowers. Bogs and wet woods. 



5. H. dilata'ta, Gray. Not unlike No. 4, but more slender 

 and with linear leaves and white flowers. 



6. H. rotundifo'lia, Richardson. (Orchis rotundifolia, ( I ray, 

 in Macoun's Catalogue.) Spike few-flowered, loose. Flowers 

 rose-purple, the lip usually white, spotted with purple, 3-lobed, the 

 middle lobe larger and notched, longer than the slender spur. 

 Stem 5-9 inches high, naked and scape-like above, bearing a xlngle 

 roundish leaf&t the base. Bogs and wet woods. 



7. H. obtlisa'ta, Richardson. Stem as in the last, but the 

 leaf is obovate or spathulate-oblong. Spike few-flowered, the 

 flowers greenish-white. Upper sepal broad and rounded, the 

 others and the petals lance-oblong. Lip entire, deflexed, as long 

 as the tapering and curving spur. Bogs. 



8. H. Hook'eri, Torr. Spike many-flowered, strict. Floivers 

 yellowish-green, the lip lanceolate, pointed, incurved ; petals lance- 

 awl-shaped. Spur slender, acute, nearly an inch long. Stem 

 scape-like above, %-leaved at the base, the leaves orbicular. Woods. 



9. H. Orbicula'ta, Torr. Spike many-flowered, how and 

 spreading. . Flowers greenish-white. Lip narrowly linear, obtuse. 

 Spur curved, more than an inch long, thickened ton-art I.* //' 

 Scape 2-leaved at the base, the leaves very large, orbicular, ami 

 lying flat on the ground, shining above, silvery beneath. Rich 

 woods. 



10. H. blephariglot'tis, Hook. (WHITE FRINGED-OKCIUS ) 

 Spike many-flowered, open. Flowers white, very handsome ; the 

 Up fringed, but not lobed, at the apex. Spur thread-shaped, three 

 times as long as the lip. Stem a foot high, leafy; the leaves oblong 

 or lanceolate, the bracts shorter than the ovaries. Peat-bogs, &c. 



11. H. leucophse'a, Gray. (GREENISH FRIN<;KI>-OI:< MIS.) 

 Spike as in the last, but the flowers greenish or yellowish-whiU. 

 Petals obovate, minutely cut-toothed. Lfjt ,!-parf< i d aim-,-, the. 

 stalk-like base, the divisions fan -shaped, fringed . Spur gratlitalty 



