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15. LI'PARIS, Rich. 



Habit of Malaxis, but usually 2-leaved. Sepals and ^etafe spreading, 

 linear. Lip inferior or superior, broader than the sepals, entire. Anther 

 terminal on the slender column, deciduous, pollen-masses 4, waxy, glands 

 evanescent. Stigma small, depressed ; rostellum minute DISTRIB. Temp. 

 and trop. regions ; species 33. ETYM. \nrap6s, from its greasy texture. 



1. L. Loese lii, Rich. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute keeled petioled, 

 lip oblong-obovate mucronate. Sturmia, Reich. Fen Orchis. 

 Spongy bogs in Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon, and Cambridge ; fl. July. Stem 

 4-8 in., swollen and sheathed with white scales at the base, 3-gonous and 

 leafless above. Leaves 1-3 in. Flowers few, Jin., ascending, pale yellow- 

 green ; bracts mostly small. DISTRIB. Europe N. of the Alps. 



16. CORALLORHI'ZA, Holler. CORAL-HOOT. 



Leafless. Root of branched, fleshy, interlaced fibres. Stem with sheathing 

 scales. Flowers few, small, subracemose. Upper sepal and petals con- 

 nivent, lateral sepals spreading Lip deflexed, short, lateral lobes small ; 

 spur minute, adnate to the ovary. Anther terminal on the short column, 

 deciduous, 2-celled ; pollen-masses 4, subglobose, granular, free. Stigma 

 discoid ; rostellum inconspicuous. DISTKIB. N. temp, regions ; species 

 10. ETYM. Kopd\\tuv and pta, coral root. 



1. C. inna'ta, Br. ; sepals linear-lanceolate, lip oblong. 

 Boggy or sandy woods and copses in Scotland, from Moray and Ross to Ayr 

 and Berwick, rare ; fl. July- Aug. Stem 6-10 in., slender; sheaths lax, red- 

 brown. Raceme 4-8 flowered, pedicels very short ; bracts minute. Flowers 

 horizontal ; perianth \ in. ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, olive-green, lateral 

 deflexed and petals narrower ; lip whitish with small purple tubercles. 

 DISTBIB. Arctic, N. and Mid. Europe, Siberia, Dahuria, N. America. 



17. CYPRIPE'DIUM, L. LADY'S SLIPPER. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem leafy or leafless. Sepals and petals spreading. 

 Lip large, inflated. Column curved over and nearly closing the small orifice 

 of the lip, bearing a terminal dilated lobe (deformed stamen), on each side 

 of the base of which is a short antheriferous arm, and below it a discoid 

 pedicelled stigma. Anthers 2, partially 2-celled ; pollen viscid, granular ; 

 rostellum 0. Ova.ry straight. DISTRIB. Trop. and temp, regions ; species 

 60. ETYM. Kuirpis and TroSiov, yen-as' slipper. 



1. C. Calce'ol-us, L.; bracts foliaceous, lip obovoid. 



Woods in limestone districts, Westmoreland, Durham and York, nearly 

 extinct; fl. May. Pubescent. Stem 6-18 in. Leaves oblong, acuminate, 

 ribbed. Flowers 1-2 ; bracts foliaceous ; sepals red-brown, upper l-ljin., 

 erect, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; lateral narrower, usually connate, and 

 placed under the lip ; petals 1-^ in., linear ; lip as long, pale yellow, obovoid, 

 with a rounded upturned end. DISTKIB. Europe (Arctic), excl. Spain Penin- 

 sular Italy and Turkey, N . Asia, Himalaya. 



