446 ORCHIDACEJC. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 





of tiie crowded (yellow) flowers ; spike oblong or cylindrical ; petals rcunded, ere- 

 nate ; Up ovate, with a lacerate-frinyed margin, scarcely shorter than the slender ob- 

 tuse incurved spur, which is not half the length of the ovary. Bogs, Fenn. 

 (Purah) to Virginia and southward. Flowers one quarter the size of the next. 



10. P. cilia ris, Lindl. (YELLOW FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Leaves oblong 

 or lanceolate ; the upper passing into pointed bracts, which arc shorter than the 

 long-beaked ovaries ; spike oblong, rather closely many -flowered ; flowers briyht 

 vrange-yellow ; lateral sepals rounded, reflcxed ; petals linear, cut-fringed at the 

 apex ; Up oblong, about half the length of the spur, furnished with a wry long and 

 copious capillary fringe. Bogs and wet places; scarce at the North ; common 

 southward. July, Aug. Our handsomest species, l^-2 high, with a short 

 spike of veiy showy flowers ; the lip ' long, the conspicuous fringe fully ^' long 

 on each side. 



11. P. Itlcphariglottis, Lindl. (WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Leaves, 

 &c. as in the last ; flowers white ; petals spatulate, slightly cut or toothed at the 

 apex ; lip oblong or lanceolate-oblong, with the irregular capillary fringe of the 

 margins usually shorter than the disk, one third the length of the spur. Var. 

 noLOPETALA (P. holopetala, Lindl.) has narrower petals with the toothing 

 obsolete, and the lip less fringed. Peat-bogs and borders of ponds, with No. 

 10, or commonly taking its place in the North. July. A foot high, the flow- 

 ers beautiful, but rather smaller than in the last. . 



5. Stem leafy : lip 3-parted, shorter than the somewhat club-shaped long spur, nut 

 rowed at the base into a claw: roots clustered and flwhy-tliickened. 



* Flowers white or greenish. 



12. P. leucoph&a, Nutt. (WESTERN ORCHIS.) Leaves oblong-lan- 

 ceolate; the bracts similar, rather shorter than the (large dull white) flowers; 

 spike elongated, loose; petals obovate, minutely cut-toot)ud ; dicisions of the lip 

 broadly wedge-shaped or fan-shaped, many-cleft to the middle into a tli read-like fringe; 

 spur longer than the ovary. Moist meadows, Central Ohio to Wisconsin and 

 south westward. July. Stem 2 - 4 high ; the spike at length 1 long. Lip 

 about I' wide. 



13. P. hicera, Gray. (RAGGED ORCHIS.) Leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late; raceme loosely many-flowered ; petals oblong-linear, entire; divisions of the 

 lip narrow, deeply parted into a few long nearly capillary lobes ; spur about the 

 length of the ovary. (O. psycodes, MuJd., &c., not of L. O. lacera, Michx.) 

 Bogs and moist thickets ; rather common. July. Stem 1 - 2 high : bracU 

 shorter or longer than the pale yellowish-green flowers. 



# # Flowers purple. 



14. P. psycodes, Gray. (SMALL PURTLE FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Loaves 

 oblong, the uppermost passing into linear-lanceolate bracts ; ran-nip rylindrical, 

 densely many-flou-crnl ; hwtr sepals round-oval, obtuse ; petals wedge-obovatr. or spat- 

 ulate, denticulate above; divisions of the spreading lip broadly wedge-shaped, 

 many-cleft into a short fringe. (O. psycodes, L. ! O. fimbriata, Pnrs/t, Bigelow. 

 O. iucisa and 0. fissa, Muhl. in Willd.) Moist meadows and alluvial banks; 

 common. July, Aug. Stem 2 high. Flowers short-pedicelled, crowded in 





