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GYROSTACHYS 
6-30 inches high: leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate or linear, 2-6 
inches long, gradually reduced upward and passing into the bracts of the 
narrow sparsely-flowered spike: flowers small, greenish yellow: lateral 
sepals ovate, obtuse, about 2 lines long, the upper one broadly ovate or 
nearly orbicular, equalling the lateral ones: petals lanceolate, a little 
Jonger than the sepals: lip linear, longer than the petals: spur short and 
saccate, dilated downward: capsule oblong, half-inch long. In mountain 
marshes, California to Alaska. : 
* * * Stem slender and scape-like, with a pair of large green leaves 
at pees flowers comparatively large, greenish, the lip longer than the 
petals. 
H. orbiculata Torr. Comp. 318. Scape stout, bracted, rarely bearing 
a small leaf, 1-2 feet high: leaves orbicular, spreading flat on the ground, 
green and shining above, silvery beneath, 4-7 inches in diameter: raceme 
loosely many-flowered: pedicels 5-6 lines long, erect in fruit: flowers 
greenish-white; upper sepal short and rounded, the lateral ones spreading, 
faleate-ovate, obtuse, 4-5 lines long: petals smaller: lip oblong-linear, 
entire, obtuse, white, about 6 lines long: spurmuch longer than the ovary, 
often 18 lines long: anther-cells prominent, converging above: glands 
small, orbicular, about 3 lines apart. In rich woods. Washington and 
Idaho to Brit. Columbia and across the Continent. 
Tribe 3 Neotttex Lindl. Orch. 441. Stems mostly leafy and 
flowers spicate or racemose. Anther one, connate with the column 
and persistent wpon its face immediately above the stigma. Pollen- 
masses 2, of coarse grains united by an elastic web, each mass at- 
tached at base by a stalk toa viscid gland. 
4 GYROSTACHYS Pers. Syn. ii, 511. (1807.) 
SPIRANTHES Richard. 
Erect herbs with fleshy-fibrous or tuberous roots, leafy stems 
and small spurless flowers in 1-3-rowed more or less twisted spikes. 
Perianth ringent, oblique on the ovary: the lateral sepals some- 
what decurrent, the upper and the petals coherent: lip sessile or 
nearly so, the base embracing and adherent to the column and 
with a callous protuberance on each side, the dilated summit 
spreading and undulate, usually entire. Column very short, ob- 
lique, terminating in a short erect stipe, bearing the ovate stigma 
on the face, the beak above usually acuminate and at length bifid 
by the separation of the oblong and viscid gland. Anther sessile 
or nearly so, at the base of the stipe behind, mostly acuminate. 
Pollen-masses 2, thin and powdery, becoming attached above the 
gland. 
G. Romanzoffiana Mc M. Met. Minn,{171. Spiranthes Romanzoffiana 
Cham. Glabrous, rather stout 4-18 inches high, leafy, bracteate yale 
leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear: spike dense, 3-ranked, conspicuously 
bracted, 1-4 inches long: perianth white, about 4 lines long, curved, the 
sepals and petals all connivent; lip recurved, ovate-oblong, contracted pe- 
low the narrower wavy-crenulate summit: callosities smooth, often obscure: 
the oblong-linear gland and very slender bifid beak 34 of aline long: capsule 
ene, 3-4 lines long. On wet banks California to Alaska and across the 
ontinent. / 
G. porrifolia Kuntze, Spiranthes porrifolia Lindl. Glabrous, rather 
