ORCHID ACK.K. (oKrillS lAMlLV.) 41)1) 



2. LI PARIS, Kicliar.l. Tuavimadk. 



Sepals and petals nearly eqnal, linear, or the latter thread-like, spreading. 

 Lip flat, entire, often hearing 2 tnhercles ahove the hiuse. Column elongated, 

 incurved, margined at the apex. Anther lid-like, terminal ; pollen-masses 4, 

 in one row (2 to each cell), slightly united in pairs, without stalk, threads, or 

 gland. — Small, low herbs, with solid bulbs, producing 2 root-leaves and a low 

 scajjc, which bears a raceme of few purplish or greenish flowers. (Name from 

 A iTTapd ?,/<'/ or shinimj, in allusion to the smooth or unctuous leaves.) 



1 L. liliifblia, Richard. Leaves ovate; petals thread-like, rcflexed ; lip 

 lanje (IV long), ivedge-ohovatc, ahniptl// short-pointed, broicn-pnrplish. — Moist 

 woodlands, X. Kng. to Ga., west to Minn, and Mo. June. 



2. L. Loes61ii, Kichard. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, keeled ; lip 

 ohorate or ohloncj [2" long), niucronate, i/rl/oiris/t-fjreen, shorter than the linear 

 unequal petals and sepals. — Bogs, N. Scotia to Md., S. 111., and Minn. (Eu.) 



3. CALYPSO, Salisb. 



Sepals and petals nearly similar, ascending, spreading, lanceolate, pointed. 

 Lip larger than the rest of the dower, sac-shaped, inflated (9" long), 2-pointed 

 underneath the apex. Column broadly winged and petal-like, ovate, bearing 

 the lid-like anther just below the apex ; pollen-masses waxy, 2, each 2-parted, 

 all sessile on a scjuare gland. — A little bog-herb; the solid bulbs producing 

 a single ovate or sligiitly heart-shaped thin leaf, as in Aplectrum, and a short 

 (3-5' high) .scape, sheathed below, bearing a large and showy (variegated 

 purple, ]nuk, and yellow) flower. (Name from the goddess Ca/i/pso.) 



1. C. borealis, Salisb. — Cold bogs and wet woods, tiie bulbs resting in 

 moss, with a coralloid root beneath; Maine and Vt. to Mich, anil Minn., and 

 northward. May. — A very local and beautiful plant. Lip somewhat re- 

 sembling that of a Lady's Slipper, woolly-hairy inside. (En.) 



4. TIPULARIA, Nutt. Craxe-flv Orchis. 



Sepals and petals spreading, oblong ; the latter rather narrower. Lip pro- 

 longed beneath into a thread-like ascending spur twice or thrice the length 

 of the flower (9-12" long), 3-lobe(l ; the middle lobe linear, a little wavy, as 

 long as the petals, the side lobes short and triangular. Column narrow anil 

 wingless. Anther lid-like, terminal; pollen-masses 2, wa.vy, each 2-parted, 

 connected by a linear stalk with the transverse small gland. — Herb with large 

 solid bulbs connected horizontally, on a distinct pedicel, producing in autumn 

 a single ovate nerved and plaited leaf on a slender petiole, purplish beneath, 

 and in summer a long slender scape, with 1 or 2 sheaths at base, bearing a 

 raceme of many small greenish flowers tinged with purple. (Name from a 

 fancied resemblance of the flowers to insects of the genus Tipula.) 



1. T. discolor, Xutt. Scape 10-18' high ; lip blunt at the tip. — Santly 

 woods, Vt. to X. J. and Fla., west to Mich. ; very scarce. 



5. APLECTRUM, Nutt. Pcttv-koot. Ai)am-a\i»-Eve. 



Perianth neither gibbous nor with any trace of a spur or sac at the base. 

 Lip free, the palate .3-ridged. Otherwise the flowers and scape (invested be- 



