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an Qval or lance-oblong closely sessile leaf near the middle, and a smaller one or 

 bract near the texmmaLflojKcr, someltimes a second flower in its axil"; flower" 1- 

 long, jiaTc rose-color. or whitish, sw^et^cented ; sepals and petals nearly alike'; 

 lipjirect, beardFcrested and fringed/" 



9. CORALLORHIZA, CORAL-ROOT (which the name means in 

 Greek). 



C. innata. Low woods, mostly N. : 3' -6' high, yellowish, with 5-10 very 

 small almost sessile flowers ; lip 3-lobed or halberd-shaped at base : fl. spring. 



C. Odontorhiza. Rich woods, common only S. : 6'- 16' high, thickened 

 at base, brownish or purplish, with 6-20 pedicelled flowers, and lip not lobed 

 but rather stalked at base, the spur obsolete. 



C. multiflbra. Common in dry woods, 9' -20' high, purplish, stout, 

 10-30 short-pedicellcd flowers, lip deeply 3-lobed, and adnate spur manifest. 



10. APLECTRTJM, PUTTY-ROOT, ADAM-AND-EVE. (Name, 

 from the Greek, means destitute of spur.) 



A. hyemale. Woods, in rich mould, mostly towards the Alleghanies and 

 N. : scape and dingy flowers in early summer ; the large oval and plaited-nerved 

 petioled leaf appears towards autumn and lasts over winter ; so. id bulbs one 

 each year, connected by a slender stalk, those of at least two years found to- 

 gether (whence one of the popular names), 1' thick, filed with strong glutinous 

 matter, which has been used for cement, whence the other name. 



11. CYPRIPEDIUM, LADY'S SLIPPER, MOCCASON-FLOWER. 



(Greek name for Venus, joined to that for a slipper or buskin.) Two exotic 

 species are not rare in conservatories ; the others are among the most orna- 

 mental and curious of our wild flowers : in spring and early summer. Root- 

 stocks very short and knotty, producing long and coarse fibrous roots. 



1. The three se/xds separate: stem leafy, one- flowered. 



C. arietinum, RAM'S HEAD C. Cold bogs N. : not common; the smallest 

 species, with slender stem 6' -10' high, oblong-lanceolate leaves, and a dingy 

 purplish flower, the sac conical and in some positions resembling a ram's head, 

 one sepal lance-ovate, the two others and the two petals linear. 



2. Two of the sejtals united by their edges into one under the sac or slipper, but 



their vety tips tometinut separate. 



* Stem l-2 high, leafy to the \-3-flowered summit: leaves lance-oblong or 

 oi'ate, with many somewhat plaited nerves, mor- or It-ss pubisrent: sac or 

 tlipper horizontal, much inflah d, open li a rather large round orijice. 

 - Sepals and linear wavy-twisted petals brownish, pointed, larger than the sac. 

 C. pub^scens, YELLOW LADY'S-SLIPPER. Low woods nnd bogs, mainly 

 N. : sac light yellow, higher than broad, convex above; sepals long-lanceolate: 

 flowers earlv summer, scentless. 



C. parviflbrum, SMALLER YELLOW L. In similar situations; stems and 

 le.ives generally smaller, and flower about half the size of the other, somewhat 

 fragrant, the sac broader than high, deep yellow, and the lance-ovate sepals 

 browner. 



C. candidum, SMALL WHITE L. Bogs and low prairies, chiefly W. : 

 small, barely 1 high, slightly pubescent ; sac like that of preceding but white. 

 - - Sepals and petals broad or roundish, and fiat, white, not larger thon the sac. 



C. spectabile, SHOWY L., and deserving the name, in bogs and rich low 

 woods N., and along the mountains S. : downy, 2 or more high, with leaves 

 6' -8' long, white flowers with the globular lip (1^'long) painted with pink- 

 purple, in July. 



* # Scape naked, bearing a small bract and one flower at summit. 

 *- Wild species, with only a pair of oblong many-nerved downy /eaves at the root. 

 C. acaule, STEMLESS L. Moist or sandy ground in the shada_o. cver- 

 greuns : scape 8 -li' high; sepals and petals gTe'tinis'h or purplish, the latter 



