386 ORCHIDEA!. [Listeba. 



emitting when touched a viscid fluid that attaches the pollen to foreign 

 bodies.— Distrib. Europe (Arctic), Siberia. 



2. Ii. corda'ta, Br. ; small, glabrous, stem angled fragile, leaves ovate- 

 cordate, lip 2-fid and with 2 small basal linear lobes. Lesser Tway-blade. 

 Mountain woods and moors, especially under beather, from Hants and Devon 

 to Shetland ; ascends to 2,700 ft. in the Highlands ; rare in Ireland ; fl. 

 July-Sept. — Stem 4-8 in., brownish-green. Leaves |-1 in., sessile, membra- 

 nous, acute. Raceme lax, few-fld. ; bracts minute. Flowers £ in. ; sepals 

 and petals olive-brown, obtuse ; lip dirty yellow-green, terminal lobes linear. 

 — Distrib. Arctic and Alpine Europe, N. Asia, N. America. 



6. GOODYE'RA, Br. 



Rootstock creeping. Leaves usually ovate and petioled. Flowers small, 

 spiked, in spiral series. Upper sepal and petals ascending, free or connate ; 

 lateral sepals deflexed, embracing the base of the lip. Lip decurved, 

 entire, base saccate. Anther hinged on to the back of the column, 

 2-celled ; pollen-masses of loosely cohering grains, sessile on one oblong 

 gland. Stigma discoid ; rostellum beaked, finally 2-fid. — Distrib. N. 

 temp, regions ; species 25. — Etym. John Goodyer, an English botanist. 



G. re'pens, Br. ; leaves ovate acute, nerves reticulate. 

 Fir woods in E. Scotland, from Cumberland, Berwick, and Ayr to Ross, rare ; 

 fl. July-Aug. — Rootstock slender, matted, widely creeping. Stem 4-8 in , 

 slender, and spike glandular-pubescent. Leaves ^-1 in., acute, dark green, 

 pubescent beneath. Spike slender; bracts subulate-lanceolate, longer than 

 the ovary. Flowers cream-white; perianth £ in.— Distrib. Mid and N. 

 Europe (Arctic), Siberia, Himalaya, N. America. 



7. SPIRAN'THES, Rich. Lady's-Tresses. 



Root of tubers or stout fibres. Stem leafy. Spike of small flowers in 

 1-3 spirally-twisted rows. Sepals and petals similar, suberect ; sepals 

 gibbous at the base ; upper adnate to the petals, forming a tube round the 

 lip. Lip embracing and adnate to the base of the column, tip entire, disk 

 2-tubercled. Anther hinged on to the back of the column, 2-celled ; 

 pollen masses 4, powdery, sessile on one linear gland. Stigma discoid ; 

 rostellum beaked, finally 2-fid. — Distrib. Trop. and temp, regions ; species 

 80. — Etym. (nrdipa and &v6os, from the twisted inflorescence. 



1. S. autumna'lis, Rich. ; tubers 2-3 ovoid, flowering-stem sheathed 

 distinct from the root-leaves, spike slender, flowers in 1 series. 

 Dry pastures from Westmoreland and York southd. ; S. and Mid. Ireland ; 

 Channel Islands; fl. Aug.-Sept. — Stem4r-8 in., slender, upper part and spike 

 pubescent. Leaves 1 in., in lateral rosettes, ovate, acute, appearing after 

 the flowers. Flowers £ in., sheathed by the cucullate cuspidate bracts, fra- 

 grant, white ; lip channelled at the base, tip exserted crenate. — Distrib. 

 From Denmark southd., N. Africa. 



