OUCHIDACE^. (ORCUIS FAMILY.) 507 



1. A. bulbosa, L. Flower single, erect, with an entire lip recurved at the 

 apex and bearded-crested down tlie face. — Bogs, Virginia to Maine, N. Wis- 

 consin, and northward : rather scarce or local. May. — Flower 1 ' - 2' long, very 

 handsome, bright rose-purple ; very rarely a pair of flowers. 



7. POGONIA, Juss. rouosiA. 



Flower irregular, the sepals and petals separate. Lip crested or 3-lobed. 

 Column free, elongated, club-shaped, wingless. Anther terminal and lid-like, 

 stalked: pollen-masses 2 (one in each cell), powdery-granular, (llcoywz/i'as, 

 bearded, from the lip of some of the original species.) 



§ 1. S''i)als and petals nearli/ equal and alike, }iak rox-color, somdimL'S white. 



1. P. ophioglOSSOldeS, Nutt. Root of thick fibres ; stem (6'-<J'high) 

 bearing a single oval or lance-oblong leaf near the middle and a smaller one or 

 bract near the terminal flower, rarely one or two others with a flower iu their 

 a\il; lip spatulate below, apprcssed to the column, beard-crested and 'ringed. — 

 In bogs. June, July. — Flower 1' long, sweet-scented. — An interesting mon- 

 ster of this, with two additional lips, and some other petaloid parts, wa^ found iu 

 Herkimer Co., ]S'ew York, by J. A. Paine. 



2. P. pendula, Lindl. Stem (3' - 8' high) from oblong tubers, bearing 3 

 to 7 alternate ovate-clasping very small (3" -6") leaves, the upper 1-4 with 

 drooping flowers in their a.xils on slender pedicels ; lip spatulate, somewhut .3- 

 lobed, roughish or crisj)ed above, crestless. (Triphora pendula, Nutt.) — Damp 

 woods : rather scarce. Aug. — I'erianth ^' long, narrow. 



§ 2. Sepals linear, dingy or brownish, lunger and much narroiue.r than the erect or ron- 

 nicent petals : lip 3-lubed at tiie ap^x, crested down the middle, beardless : Jlowtrs 

 solitary (or rarely a pair), terminal : root a cluster of fibres. 



3. P. divaricita, R. Br. Stem ( 1 ° - 2° high ) bearing a lanceolate leaf in the 

 middle, and a leafy bract next the flower, which is recurved on the ovary ; but the 

 sepals ascending or diverging, spatulate-linear, longer than the lanceolate-spat- 

 ulate pointed and flesh-colored petals, these about I'-U' long. — Wet pine- 

 barrens, Quaker Bridge, New Jeisey ( IF. //. Leijjett), Virginia, and southward. 

 June, July. 



4. P. verticillata, Nutt. Stem (6' -12' high), naked, except some sni;<.ll 

 scales at the base, and a whorl of mostly .') obovute or obovate-oblong sessile leares at 

 the summit; flower dusky purplish, on a, peduncle longer than the orary and pod ; 

 sepals more than twice the length of the petals, narrowly linear, spreading from a 

 mostly erect base (l^'-2' long) ; lip with a narrow crest down the middle. — 

 Low woods: rather rare, especially eastward. May, June. — Glaucous when 

 young. Stalk of pod al)0ut 1^' long, more than half the length of the leaves. 



5. P. afifinis, C. F. Austin, n. sp. Somewhat smaller than the preceding ; 

 leaves paler and rather narrower; flowers (not rarely in pairs) yellowish or 

 greenish; peduncle much shorter than the ovary and pod ; sepals not twice the length 

 of the petals, tapering to the base ; lip crested over the whole face and on tlie 

 middle of the lobes. — With the last, which it nearly resembles, but is much 

 rarer. Southern New York and Northern New Jersey, C. F. Austin ; and 

 Connecticut, near New Haven, Edward Dana. 



