ORCHID FAMILY. Orchidaceas. 



woods and meadows, from Me., south in the mountains 

 of N. Car., west to Minn., and reported in Neb. (Webber). 



A tall and leafy northern species, with 

 Habenarta „ _ ., 



hyperborea green, or yellow-green flowers, erect lance- 



Green, yellow- shaped leaves, and a dense narrow flower- 

 green spike sometimes 12 inches long, or longer. 

 June July Flower-spur short and incurved, petals, 

 sepals, and lip much shorter than the ovary. 8-30 inches 

 high. Cold, wet woods. Me., to N. J. and Iowa. 

 Habenaria A ver y sinmar species with much nar- 

 dilatata rower leaves and greenish white flowers 

 Greenish white with small obtuse sepals. Flower-lip 

 June July lance-shaped from a lozenge-shaped base. 

 Cold, wet bogs. Conn., to Mich, and Minn. 



The two large, shining, nearly round, or 

 Orchid * broadly oval light green leaves usually lie 



Habenaria upon theground, but are sometimes raised 



Hookeriana above it. The somewhat twisted and bare 

 Whitish gtem bears 10-20 upright flowers, with 



Juile^Atfust S reen l afcei "al sepals curving backward, 

 narrow yellow-green petals, and the throat 

 accented by two lateral spots of yellow-ochre. The lip 

 is lance-shaped, incurved, and pointed; the slender while- 

 green spur nearly 1 inch deep is especially adapted to 

 the long tongues of the moths. 8-15 inches high. 

 Woods and borders of wooded swamps from Me. , south 

 to N. J., west to Minn, and Iowa. 



A larger species, the two nearly round 

 Green Round- j f which are sometimes 7 inches 



Leaved Orchis 



Habenaria across, and he flat upon the ground ; they 



orbiculata are light green and shining above, and 



Whitish silvery white beneath. The stem is not 



Jul' August bare ' but bracted; the whitish yellow- 

 green flowers in a loose cluster, with the 

 upper sepal nearly round, the lateral ones ovate, and 

 the narrow lip obtuse and drooping, almost three times 

 the length of the small lance-shaped petals ; the slender, 

 curved, whitish spur nearly 2 inches long thickened 

 toward the blunt point is peculiarly adapted to the long 

 tongue of one of the lesser sphinx-moths. " A larger in- 



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