14 IblANDRIA. MOyOGYXIA. 



bilabiate, superior S-lobed, inferior 2-lobe(3 

 shorter; faux (or juncture of the labise) contrac- 

 ted. Stamina 2 very short. StijU short. Stigma 

 bilamellate covering tlie anthers. Capsule 1- 



the corolla emarginate, lower obtuse with an abrupt point; spur 

 siraig-ht, subulate and acute, a little incurved, and about the 

 length of the corolla; the root fibrous. South Carolina. 



9. Cornuta. I'aking- root in the grounds scape rigid, 1 to 2 feet 

 high, 2 to 3-flo\vered, flowers large, the lower lip 3 lobed, 

 very wide: spur longer than the corolla, porrected, nearly verti- 

 cal, subulate, and acute. 



Abundant on the Table rock, at the Falls of Niagara, and 

 throughout Canada and the Alleghany mountains to Virginia, 

 jn calcareous soil. 



10. seiacea. Michaux. 



Scape minute, rooting, and without leaves, slenderly seta- 

 ceous, distantly 2 to 3 flowered; flowers upon longish pedicells; 

 apur rather long. 



Mr. Le Conte says, scape many-flowered (4 to 7 on short pe- 

 "^uncles. El.) upper lip of the corolla ovale, lower strongly 3- 

 !obed; spur subulate, as long as the lower lip of the corolla. 



Lower division of the calix slightly emarginate. El. This de- 

 scription does not appear to accord with Michaux's plant, and 

 still appears to be nearer it than any other. It cannot possibly 

 be the U. subulata of Pursh, and the synonym of Gronovlus ap- 

 plies probably to the U. setacea of Mich.— Persoon adds, that 

 the flowers of the subulata are white; a circumstance entirely 

 improbable. 



The whole of this genus appears in confusion, scarcely ex- 

 cepting the European part of it; and none of the smaller and am- 

 biguous species which are now greatly multiplied, can be under- 

 Stood but by a monograph accompanied with accurate deline- 

 ations. 



Besides the above 10 species, there are 6 others growing 

 within the tropical regions of America. A blue flowered species 

 in Ceylon, with 2 others in India, one in China, doubtful appa- 

 rently as to the genus, and 3 species in Europe, .\merica has, 

 then,' 16 species out of 2.3; of which one, in Martmique, is said 

 to p oduce large white flowers, and entire ovate leaves! The U. 

 nnifolia of Peru raLher appears to belong to the family of the 

 Orchidea, having a single radical lanceolate leaf, a solitary flow- 

 er, and a large coixlale callx; it possesses, in short, all the ha- 

 bits of a Cambidlum or Arethusa. 



