452 ORCHIDACEJE. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 





them. Pollen-masses 4, in one ro\r (2 in each cell), cohering by pairs at the 

 apex, waxy, without any stalks or elastic connecting tissue. Little herbs from 

 solid bulbs, producing simple stems or scapes, which bear 1 or 2 leaves, and a 

 raceme of minute greenish flowers. (Name composed of puepos, little, and orvXir, 

 a column or style.) 



1. M. moilOpliyllOS, Lindl. Slender (4' -6' high); leaf solitary, 

 shcathu g the base of the stem, ovate-elliptical ; raceme spiked, long and slender ; 

 pedicels not longer than the flowers; lip triangular-halberd-shaped, long-pointed. 

 Cold wet swamps, N. New England to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 July. (Eu.) 



2. HI. OplliOglOSSOldes, Nutt. Leaf solitary near the middle of the 

 stem, ovate, clasping ; raceme short and obtuse ; pedicels much longer than the flow- 

 ers; lip obtusely auricled at the base, 3-toothed at the summit. Damp woods ; 

 more common southward. Plant 4' - 10' high. July. 



14. LI I* A 11 IS, Richard. TWAYBLADB 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, linear, or the latter thread-like, spreading. 

 Lip flat, entire, often bearing 2 tubercles above the base. Column elongated, 

 incurved, margined at the apex. Anther, &c. as in the last. Small herbs, with 

 solid bulbs, producing 2 root-leaves and a low scape, which bears a raceme of few 

 purplish or greenish flowers. (Name from \iirapos, fat or shining, in allusion to 

 the smooth or unctuous leaves.) 



1. L. liliifolia, Richard. Leaves 2, ovate ; petals thread-like, reflcxed ; 

 lip large (' long), wedye-obovate, abruptly short-jwinted, brown-purplish. (Malaxis 

 liliifolia, Sicartz.) Moist woodlands: commonest in the Middle States. June. 



2. L.. Loeselii, Richard. Leaves 2, elliptical-lanceolate or oblong, sharp- 

 ly keeled ; lip obovate or oblong (2" long), mucronate at the incurved tip, yellow- 

 ish-green, shorter than the linear unequal petals and sqjals. (Malaxis Correana, 

 Barton.) Bogs and wet meadows, New England to Penn., Wisconsin, and 

 northward : rare. June. (Eu.) 



15. CORALLORHIZA, Hallcr. CORAL-ROOT. 



Flower ringcnt ; the oblong or lanceolate sepals and petals nearly alike, the 

 laveral ascending and the upper arching : lip spreading above, with 2 projecting 

 ridges or lamella? on the face below, slightly adherent at the base to the 2-edged 

 straightish column, and often more or less extended into a protuberance or short 

 spur coalcsccnt with the summit of the ovary. Anther 2-lipped, terminal and 

 lid-like. Polten-masscs 4, obliquely incumbent, soft-waxy or powdery, free. 

 Brownish or yellowish herbs, destitute of green foliage, with much-branched 

 and toothed coral-like root-stocks (probably root-parasitical), sending up a sim- 

 ple scape, furnished with sheaths in place of leaves, and bearing small and dull- 

 colored flowers in a spiked raceme. (Name composed of KOjxxAAtov. coral, and 

 pi(a, root.) 



It Lip 3 Ifibcd (the m -ddfe lobe very much largest) and with 2 distinct lamcllm or plaited 

 on th 2 face, wl itish, usually spotted or mottled with crimson. 



