508 ORCIIIDACE^. (orchis FAMILY.) 



8 . C A L O P 6 G O N , R. Br. Calopogon. 



Flower with the ovary or stalk not twisting, therefore presenting its lip on tht 

 upper or inner side. Sepals and petals nearly alike, lance-ovate, spreading, dis- 

 tinct. Lip spreading, distant from the column, raised on a narrowed base or 

 stalk, dilated at the summit, strongly bearded along the upper side. Colunm 

 free, slender, winged at the ape.x. Anther terminal and lid-like, sessile : pollen- 

 masses 4 (two in each cell), of soft powdery grains, lightly connected by delicate 

 threads. — Scape from a small soliil bulb, sheathed below by the base of the 

 grass-like leaf, naked above, bearing several flowers. Bracts minute. (Name 

 composed of kuXos, haiillful, and Trwycoi/, heard, from the bearded lip.) 



1. C. pulehelius, K. Br. Leaf linear; scape about 1° high, 2-6-flow- 

 ered; lip as if hinged at the insertion, beautifully bearded towards the dilated 

 summit with white, yellow, and purple club-shaped hairs. — Bogs: common. 

 June, July. — Flowers I' broad, i)ink-purplc. 



9. CALYPSO, Salisb. Calypso. 



Sepals and petals nearly similar, ascending, spreading, lanceolate, pointed. 

 Lij) larger than the rest of the flower, sac-shaped, inflated {9" long), 2-pointcd 

 underneath the ape.x. Column broadly winged and petal-like, ovate, bearing 

 the lid-like anther just below the apex : pollen masses waxy, 2, each 2-partcd, 

 all sessile on a square gland. — A little bog-herb; the solid bulbs producing a 

 single ovate or slightly heart-shaped thin leaf, as in A plectrum, and a short 

 (3' -5' high) scape, sheathed below, bearing a large and showy (variegated 

 purple, pink, and yellow) flower. (Name from the goddess Cah/pso.) 



1. C. borealis, Salisb. — Cold bogs and wet woods, the bulbs resting in 

 moss, Northern New England to Michigan, and northward. May. — Avery 

 local and beautiful plant. Lip somewhat resembling that of a Lady's Slipper, 

 woolly-hairy inside. (Eu.) 



10. TIPULARIA, Nutt. Crane fly Orchis. 



Sepals and petals spreading, oblong ; the latter rather narrower. Lip pro- 

 longed underneath into a thread-like ascending spur twice or thrice the length 

 of the flower (9"- 12" long), .^-lobed ; the middle lobe linear, a little wavy, as 

 long as the petals, the side lobes short and triangular.- Column narrow and 

 wingless. Anther lid-like, terminal : pollen-masses 2, waxy, each 2-parted, con- 

 nected by a linear stalk with the transverse small gland. — Herb with large 

 solid bulbs connected horizontally, on a distinct petiole, producing in antumn 

 a single ovate nerved and plaited leaf on a slender petiole, tinged with purple 

 beneath ; and in summer a long and naked slender scape (10'- 18' high), with 

 1 or 2 sheaths at the base, bearing a many-flowered raceme of small greenish 

 flowers tinged with purple. (Name from a fancied resemblance of the flowers 

 to insects of the frenus Tipiila.) 



1. T. discolor, Nutt. Lip blunt at the tip (which distinguishes it from 

 a recently discovered Himalayan species). — Sandy woods, Massachusetts to 

 Michigan and southward : very scarce. July. 



