ORCHIDACEJi:. (orchis FAMILY.) 503 



(O. psycodes, L. ! O. fimbriata, Pursh, Bigelow. 0. incisa and O. fissa, Mnhl. 

 in Willd. Platanthcra fimbriata, Zi'no?/.) — Wet meadows and bojis: common. 

 July, Aug. — Flowers short-pedicelled, crowded in a spike of 4'- 10' in length, 

 small, but very handsome, fragrant; lip short-stalked, barely ^' broad and not 

 so long ; the middle lobe broadest and more closely fringed, but not so deeply 

 cleft as the lateral ones. 



17. H. fimbriata, R. Br. Lower leaves oval or oblong, the npper few, 

 passing into lanceolate bracts; spike or raceme oblorn/, loose! //-Jlowered ; lower sep- 

 als orate, acute; petals oblon;/, toothed down the sides; divisions of the pendent 

 large lip fan-shaped, more fringed. (0. fimbriata. Ait., Willd., Hook. Exot. 

 Fl. &c. 0. grandiflora, Bigelow.) — Wet meadows, New England to Pcnn. 

 and (chiefly) northeastward. June. — Flowers fewer, paler (or lilac-purple), 

 and 3 or 4 times larger than those of the preceding; the more ample dilated 

 lip 5' to 1' broad, with a deeper and almost capillary crowded fringe, different- 

 shaped petals, &c. 



18. H. peramoena, Gray. Lower leaves oblong-ovate, the upper lanceo- 

 late; spike oblong or cyliudrical, densely flowered ; lower sepals round-ovate; 

 petals rounded-obovate, raised on a claw ; divisions of the large lip very broadli/ 

 wedge-shaped, irregularis/ erodid-tootJud at the broadly dilated summit, the lateral 

 ones truncate, the middle one2-lohed. (Platanthcra peramoena, Ed. 2. P. fissa, 

 Lindl. O. fissa, Pursh, not of Muhl.) — Moist meadows and banks, Penn. to 

 Illinois, and southward along the AUeghanies. Aug. — Flowers large and 

 showy, violet-purple; the lip paler and very ample, 8"- 10" long: its divisions 

 minutely and variably toothed, or sparingly cut along the terminal edge, but 

 not fringed. 



3. GOODYERA, R.Br. Rattlesnake-Plantain. 



Lip sac-shaped, sessile, entire, and without callosities at the base. Otherwise 

 as Spiranthes. — Rootof tJiick fibres, from a somewhat fleshy creeping rootstock, 

 bearing a tuft of thickish petioled leaves, usually reticulated with white veining. 

 Scape, spike, and the greenish-white small flowers usually glandular-downy. 

 (Dedicated to John Goodger, an early English botanist.) 

 § 1. Lip strongly saccate-inflated and with a short spreading or recurved tip: anther 



short, borne on a distinct fllament attached to the back of the short column, blunt: 



gland-bearing tip or beak of the stigma very short. 



1. G. ripens, R. Br. Small (5' -8' high) and slender; leaves ovate, 

 more or less white-reticulated (about 1' long) ; flowers several, in a loose 1-sidcd 

 spike ; lij) with an ovate recurved tip ; sepals ovate. — Woods, under evergreens : 

 common northward and through the AUeghanies. Aug. (Eu.) 



2. G. pubescens, R. Br. Larger; leaves strongly white-rcticulated ; 

 scape G'-12' high; the numerous crowdid flowers not one-sided; tip of the globular 

 lip very short: otherwise like the preceding, and too near it. — Rich woods, cast- 

 ward and southward. July, Aug. 



§ 2. Lip barely saccate below, tapering and its sid(S involute above: anther ovate and 

 long-pointed, borne on the base of the very short proper column, which is continued 

 above the stigma into a conspicuous long tapering awl-shaped gland-bearing beak. 



