324 ORCHIS FAMILY. 



lower face of which is the stigma. Lip broad, erect, with a rccjirylng 

 rounded Jipex and a bearded c_re>t down the face. Pollen-masses 4,J;wo in 

 eaeh eell of the anther. 



7. CALOPOGON. Flowers 2,3, or several, in a raceme-like loose spike; the lip 

 turned towards the axis, diverging widely from the slender (above wing-mar- 

 gined) style, narrower at base, larger and rounded at the apex, strongly 

 bearded along the face. Sepals and the 2 petals nearly alike, lance-ovate, 



stem; the sepals 



4 4 j-shaped, wingless: 



stigma lateral. Anther lid-like, somewhat stalked: pollen-masses 2, only one 

 in each cell. 



+ *-+ Flowers mostly small, dull-colored, in a spike or raceme on a brownish or yel- 

 lowish leafless scape : pollen-masses 4, ylobular, soft-waxy. 



9. CORALLORHIZ A. Flowers with sepals and petals nearly alike ; the lip broader, 

 2-ridged on the face below, from its base descends a short sac or obscure spur 

 which adheres to the upper part of the ovary. Scape with sheaths in place 

 of leaves; the root or rootstock thickish, much branched and coral-like. 



10. APLEGTBUM. Flowers as in No. 9, but no trace of a spur or sac, larger. 



Scape rising from a large solid bulb or corm, which also produces, at a differ- 

 ent season, a broad and many-nerved green leaf. 



* * Anthers 2 (Lessons p. 111. fig. 226), borne one on each side of the style, and a 



troictl-shaped body on tliv, upper fide answers to the third stamen, the one that 

 alone is present in other Orchids: politn powdery or pulpy : stit/ma ruuyhish, 

 not glutinous. 



11. CYPRIPEDIUM. Sepals in appearance generally only 2, and petals 2, besides 



the lip which is a large inflated sac, into the mouth of which the style, bear- 

 ing the stamens and terminated by the broad terminal stigma, is declined. 

 Pollen sticky on the surface, as if with a delicate coat of varnish, powdery or 

 at length pulpy underneath. 



1. EPIDENDUM. (Name in Greek means u/ton a trte, i. e. an epiphyte.) 

 E. COn6pseum, our only wild Orchideous Epiphyte or Air-plant, is found 



from South Carolina S. W. on the boughs of Magnolia, &c., clinging to the 

 bark by its matted roots, its tuberous rootstocks bearing thick and firm lance- 

 olate leaves (1 ' 3' long), and scapes 2' 6' long, with a raceme of small greenish 

 and purplish flowers, in summer. (Lessons, p. 34, 35, fig. 35.) 



2. ORCHIS. (The ancient name, from the Greek.) We have only one true 

 Orchis, viz. 



O. spectbilis, SHOWY ORCHIS. Rich hilly woods N. ; with 2 oblong 

 obovate glossy leaves (3 -5' long) from the fleshy-fibrous root, and a leafy - 

 bracted scape 4' -7' high, bearing in a loose spike a few pretty flowers, pink- 

 purple, the ovate lip white : in late spring. 



3. H ABENAKI A, popularly called ORCHIS. (Name from Latin halxna, 

 a rein or thong, from the shape of the lip of the corolla in some species.) 

 Flowers in a terminal spike, each in the aiiLof a bract in late spring or sum- 

 mer. In all but one species the (iviiry tud&t* and the lip occupies the lower 01 

 anterior side of the flower. 



1. FRINGED ORCHIS. Lip and <>f)ai the other }>etals cMt-frinaed or chfl, 

 shorter than the /(>>/ mrrhnj spur : cells of the anihcr more or leu diren/ing 

 <unl tajxriny hi'/oir, the mirki/ ijland (it their lower end stnniyly jtrojictiny 

 fnrirards. I'ht *< arc our koMUOHtat wid Orchises : all yrow in boys or low 

 (/rounds: sftins l<'<ify, 1 4 hitjh. 



* Flowers violet-pnrp'c, in sttiunifr: the lip fan-shaped, 3-parttd nearly down to the 



stalk-like liasr, and tltc dirisions more or A s\ /'rfnatd. 



H. fimbri&ta, L.VKCKH I'CUI-LK FI:IN<;I.I> O. Wet meadows from Pen n. 

 N. K. : lower leaves oval or oblong, upper few and small; raceme-like sj ik<; 

 oblong, with rather few larg'' (lowers in early summer; petals oblong, toothed 

 flown the sides ; lip almost 1' wide, hanging, Cut into a delicate fringe. 



