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ORCHIDACE^E. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 4.47 



a spike 4 r -7' long, small, but very handsome, fragrant: lip short-stalked, 

 barely ' broad and not so long ; the middle lobe broadest and more closely 

 fringed, but not so deeply cleft as the lateral ones. 



15. P. filiibrifita, Lindl. (LARGE PURPLE FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Lower 

 leaves oval or oblong, the upper few, passing into lanceolate bracts ; spike or ra- 

 ceme oblong, loosely-flowered ; lower sepals ovate, acute ; petals oblong, toothed down 

 the sides ; divisions of the pendent large lip fan-shaped, many-cleft into a long 

 capillary fringe. (0. fimbriata, Ait., Willd., Hook. Exot. Fl., &c. O. grandi- 

 flora, Biijdoic.) Wet meadows, &c., New England to Penn., and (chiefly) 

 northeastward. June. Stem 2 high. Flowers fewer, paler (or lilac-purple), 

 and 3 or 4 times larger than those of No. 14 ; the more ample dilated lip |' to 

 1' broad, with a deeper and nearly capillary crowded fringe, different-shaped 

 petals, &c. 



16. P. peramrciia, Gray. (GREAT PURPLE ORCHIS.) Lower leaves 

 oblong-ovate, the upper lanceolate ; spike oblong or cylindrical, densely flow- 

 ered ; lower sepals round-ovate ; petals rounded-obovate, raised on a claw ; 

 divisions of the large lip very broadly wedge-shaped, irregularly eroded-toothed at the 

 broadly dilated summit, the lateral ones truncate, the middle one 2-lobcd. (P. tissa, 

 Lindl. O. fissa, Pursh, not of Muhl.) Moist meadows and banks, Penn. to 

 Obio, Illinois, and southward along the Alleghanies. Aug. Stem 2 -4 

 high. Flowers large and showy, violet-purple ; the lip paler and very ample, 

 1' long: its divisions minutely and variably toothed, or sparingly cut along die 

 terminal edge, but not fringed. 



4. OOOI>YERA, R. Brown. RATTLESNAKE-PLANTAIN. 



Flower ringent ; lateral sepals not oblique at the base, including the saccate 

 sessile base of the lip, which is free from the small straight column, without 

 callosities, and contracted at the apex into a pointed and channelled recurved 

 termination. Anther attached to the back near the summit of the column. 

 Pollen-masses 2, consisting of angular grains loosely cohering by a manifest 

 web. Root of thick fibres from a fleshy somewhat creeping rootstock, bearing 

 a tuft of thickish petioled leaves next the ground. Scape, spike, and the green- 

 ish-white small flowers usually glandular-downy. (Dedicated to John Goodyer, 

 an early English botanist.) 



G. repcns, R. Brown. Small (5' -8' high) and slender; leaves ovate, 

 lore or less reticulated with white (about 1' long) ; flowers several, in a loose 

 l-sidcd spike; lip inflated, the apex ovate and obtuse; stigma distinctly 2- 

 toothed. Rich woods, under evergreens ; common northward, and southward 

 along the Alleghanies. Aug. Intermediate forms apparently occur between 

 this and the next. (Eu.) 



2. O. pufoescens, R. Brown. Leaves ovate, conspicuously reticulated 

 and blotched with white (2' long) ; flowers numerous in a crowded spike, not \-sidcd; 

 lip inflated, and with an abrupt ovate apex ; stigma rounded at the summit. 

 Rich woods ; rather common, especially southward. July, Aug Scape 

 8' -12' high. 



