630 ORCHIDACE PERAMIUM 
LISTEKA 
slender, 6-18 inches high, leafy below, bracteate above: leaves oblong- 
lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-4 inches long, acute: spike dense, rather slender, 
1-3 inches long: bracts acuminate fromfan ovate or oblong: base, not sur- 
passing the flowers: perianth about 3 lines long; sepals and petals all 
connivent, linear: lip slightly recurved, not exceeding the sepals, callosities 
at the base very prominent and nipple-like, pointing downward. In wet 
places in the Coast Mountains;of southern Oregon to California. 
5 PERAMIUM Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. i, 310. (1812.) 
GOODYERA R. Br. 1. e. (1813.) 
Herbs with bracted erect scapes from creeping rootstocks with 
fleshy-fibrous rootlets, all radical, often blotched with white, 
thick evergreen leaves and small flowers. in terminal spikes. 
Lateral sepals free, the upper one united with the petals into a 
galea. Lip sessile, entire, roundish-ovate, concave or saccate, 
without callosities, its apex reflexed. Anther without a lid, erect 
or incumbent, attached to the column by a short stalk. Pollen- 
masses 2, attached to a small disk which coheres with the top of 
the stigma. 
P. Menziesii Morong Mem. Torr. Bot. Club. v, 124. Goodyera Men- 
ziesii Lindl. Scapes and inflorescence pubescent, 6-15 inches high: 
leaves smooth, dark green blotched with white, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 
acute, 2-3 inches long, narrowed into a short petiole usually somewhat 
reticulated with light greenish markings: spikes many-flowered, rather 
dense, somewhat secund: bracts ovate-lanceolate, equalling the ovary: 
perianth dull white, pubescent, 2-4 lines long: lip strongly concave and 
erect, narrowing above into the slightly spreading summit: column short 
and straight: anther acuminate: gland and bifid beak very narrow and 
elongated : capsule ovate-oblong, very nearly sessile, 4 lines long. In open 
forests, California to Alaska and Canada. 
6 LISTERA R. Br, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed 2, 201. 
Small, herbs with fleshy-fibrous roots, simple stems with a pair 
of flat leaves near the middle and small flowers in a terminal ra- 
ceme. Sepals and petals similar: lip free, longer than the sepals, 
flat and dilated, more or less deeply bifid: column free and naked, 
bearing the ovate anther at the back of the summit. Pollen- 
masses 2, powdery, united to a very minute gland upon the 
rounded and entire beak of the stigma. 
L. ecordata R. Br. l. c. Stem very slender 2-10 inches high: leaves 
broadly ovate 6-12 lines broad, truncate or somewhat cordate at base but 
abruptly contracted at the point of insertion, mucronate: racemes rather 
loose, 6-20 lines long, 4-20-flowered: bracts 4g line long: flowers purplish 
or yellowish : sepals broadly ovate, about a line long: petals broadly oblong: 
lip narrow, often with a subulate tooth on each side at the base, fully twice 
as long as the petals, cleft to near the middle, the segments setaceous and 
ciliolate: column very short; capsule ovoid, 2 lines long. In damp places 
in forests, California to Alaska aud across the Continent. 
L. convallarioides Torr.”Comp. 326. Stem slender, 4-10 inches high, 
glandular-pubescent above the leaves, rarely with a bract below the ra- 
ceme: leaves smooth, round-oval or ovate, obtuse or cuspidate, slightly 
cordate or reniform at base, 3-9-nerved: raceme 1-3 inches long, ‘loosely 
3-12-flowered: flowers greenish-yellow, 3-4 lines long: sepals and petals 
