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++ ++ ++ Pollen-masses 4: no stalks or glands. 



11. Micros'tylis. Small herbs from solid bulbs ; the scape bearing a 



single leaf and a raceme of minute greenish flowers. Column 

 very small, terete, with 2 teeth at the top, and the anther between 

 them. Petals thread-like or linear, spreading. 



12. Lip'aris. Small herbs from solid bulbs ; the low scape bearing 2 



radical leaves and a raceme of a few greenish flowers. Column 

 elongated, incurved, margined at the apex. Petals thread-like or 

 linear, spreading. Anther lid-like. 



13. Coral lorlii/a. Brownish or yellowish plants, with the small dull 



flowers in spikes or scapes which are leafless or have mere sheaths 

 instead of leaves. Rootstocks branching and coral-like. Peri- 

 antli gibbous or slightly spurred belotv. Lip with 2 ridges on the 

 inner part of the face. 



14. A pl<><- f rnm. Somewhat like the last, but the perianth is not gib- 



bous below, and the rootstock, instead of being coral-like, is slen- 

 der, and produces each year a solid bulb or corm. Lip with 3 

 ridges on the palate. Scape with 3 greenish sheaths below. 



* * Anthers 2, one on each side of the stigma, and a triangular body, 

 lohich is the rudiment of a third, at the back of the stigma. Pollen 

 loose andpoicdery or pulpy. 



in. < ,\ |n-i|M- diinu. Lip a large inflated sac, into the mouth of which 

 the style is declined. Sepals and the other petals much alike, the 

 former apparently only -2, two of them being generally united into 

 one under the lip. Leaves large, many-nerved. Flowers solitary 

 or few. 



1. ORCHIS, L. ORCHIS. 



0. speeta'bilis, L. (SHOWY ORCHIS.) Scape 4-angled, 

 4-7 inches high, bearing a few flowers in a spike. The 

 carching upper, lip pink -purple, the labellum white; each 

 flower in the axil of a leaf-like bract. 



2. H AIJK WKIA, Willd., R. Br. REIN-ORCHIS. 



1. H. tridenta'ta, Hook. Spike few-flowered, the flowers 

 very small, greenish-white. Lip wedge-shaped, truncate and 

 fi-tootJied at the apex. Spur slender, longer than the ovary, 

 curved upwards. Stem less than a foot high, slender, with 

 one oblanceolate leaf below and 2 or 3 much smaller ones 

 above. Wet woods. 



2. H. Vires' eens, Spreng. Stem 10-20 inches high. Spike 

 of small greenish flowers at first dense, with the bracts 

 longer than the flowers, at length long and loose. Lip 



