326 ORCHIS FAMILY. 



row^ spatulate-linear and drooping; spur about l' long, curved, gradually 

 tnickened towards the liiunt tip: H. July. 



H. Hookeri. Sandy woods from IVnn. N. : smaller in all parts, flowers 

 in June; the orbicular leaves only 3' -5' broad and flat_on the ground; scape 

 7*naked, 6' 12' high, bearing fewer yellowish-green flowers in a strict spike; 

 sepals lance-ovate; lip lanceolate and pointed, incurved, the other petals lance- 

 awl-shaped; spur slender, acute, nearly 1' long. 



4. SPIRANTHES,. LADIES'-TRESSES. (Name from the Greek, de- 

 notes that the flowers are spiral : they often are apparently spirally twisted in 

 the spike.) Flowers white. The species are difficult; the following are the 

 commonest 



* Flowers crowded in 3 ranks in a dose spike : wet bonks or hogs. 



S. latifblia. Only from Delaware N. : known by its obiong or lanceob- 

 long leaves (l'-3' long), all at the base of the scape, and narrow spike of small 

 smooth flowers early in June. 



S. Romanzoviana. Cold bogs, from N. New England W. : 5' -15' high, 

 with oblong-lanceolate or grassy-linear leaves, a dense spike of flowers at mid- 

 summer, all 3 sepals and 2 petals conniving to form an upper lip. 



S. crnua, Common E. and S. : 6' -20' high, with lance-linear leaves, 

 cylindrical often lengthened spike, and lower sepals not upturned but parallel 

 with the lower petal or lip : fl. in autumn. 



* * Flowers in one straight or often spirally twishd rank, in summer. 



S. graminea. Wet grassy places from N. England S. : stem about 1 

 fy ../f-^.high, towards its base and at the fleshy root bearing linear or lance-linear leaves, 

 which mostly last through the flowering season ; spike dense and much twisted, 

 rather downr. 



'flnyfft S. gracilis. Hills. n( l sandy plains : scape s'ender, 8'- 18' high, bearing a 

 slender spike ; layt>s nil from the tuberous root, short, ovate or oblong, aj)J; to 

 ' r f & wjjthnr nwny before the small flowers appear in late summer. 



5. GOODYERA, RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN. (Named for John 

 Goodt/cr, an English botanist.) Flowers small, in summer, greenish-white, 

 spiked on a scape; the leaves all clustered at the root, ovate, small. 



'(*+* PrtJc. Q-. ripens. Evergreen woods N. : 3' - 8' high, slender ; flowers in a loose 

 , f ..^one-sided spike, with inflated sac-shaped lip. 



G. pubescens. Oak and .pine woods E. & S. : 6'- 12' high ; larger, with 

 leaves more beautifully white-reticulated, and flowers not one-sided in the denser 

 spike ; lip globular. 



G. MeilZ.esii. Woods, only from New York W. : 9' -12' high ; leaves less 

 reticulated ; flowers loose in the spike, narrower and pointed in the bud, the lip 

 hardly sac-shaped at the base and tapering to a narrow apex. 



G^ARETHUSA. (Mythological name of a nymph and fountain.) FJ " ^te 





spring. 



A. bulb6sa. A charming little plant, in wet bogs N. : consists of a scayc 

 6^- 10' high rising from a solid bulb or conn, sheathed below with one or two 

 green bracts, and terminated with the bright rose-pink flower l'-2'long. 



7. CALOPOGON. (Name in Greek mean< l.,uitiful Ixnnl, referring to 



the lip.) H. early M.mmer. ?h.*1/flU^ Vh*Jt*0jD^O(. J'SvvrU- /< / O 



C. pulch611ll8. Wet bogs : scape about 1 high, from a small solid bulb, 

 slender, bearing next the ha-e a long linear or lanceolate many-nerved gnUB>likc 

 leaf, and at the summit 2 - C> beantit'nl pink-])iirplc flowers (I broad), the lip as 

 if hinged at its b^se, bearded with white, yellow, and purple club-shaped hairs. 



8. POGONIA.. ("Name in (Jreek means IxojuLd, i.e. on the lip: this is 

 hardly the ca^e in most of our species.) We have several, but the only widely 



f common one is Tn. - 



blossom 



. 



OphiOglOSSOldeS. A\ r Ct bogs /along with the Calopogon,. and in 

 at the same time : stem 6'- 9^ high from a root of thick fibres, bearing 



