258 Bog-Trotting for Orchids 



17.— HABENARIA PSYCODES (Linnaeus) A. Gray, 1753-1840 



Small Purple-Fringed Orchis — Long Purples— Dead- 

 Men's Fingers— Dead-Men's Thumbs 



The specific name, psycodes, comes from the Greek psychoda, 

 a butterfly, probably referring to the dainty poise of the fringed, 

 and winged-petaled flowers. 



Tall bogland or damp woodland orchid, with fleshy or pal- 

 mately- tuberous roots. July ist- August-September. 



Flowers pink-purple, rarely white, very fragrant in densely 

 flowered spiked raceme, 2-6 inches long; i-iyi inches broad. 

 Labellum 3-parted, fan-shaped, fringed, y^-yi inch broad, much 

 smaller and often confused with the larger species {H. grandi- 

 flora). Sepals and petals similar in texture, lower sepals ovate, 

 upper one narrower. Petals oblong, toothed on upper margin. 

 Spur clavate at apex. Stem leafy, 1-3 feet high. 



Continental Range— Vrom Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Lake 

 Huron southward to the swampy meadows in the western 

 mountains of North Carolina ; westward to Minnesota in tama- 

 rack sphagnous swamps. 



New England Range — Maine, very common ; New Hamp- 

 shire, common ; Vermont, common ; Massachusetts, frequent ; 

 Rhode Island, common ; Connecticut, frequent. 



18.— HABENARIA ANDREWSEH White n. sp. (per letter), 1903 

 Andrews' Rose-Purple Orchis 



Habenaria psycodes X lacera White and Andrews, Rhodora 3 : 

 245-248, 1901 



The specific name, Andrewseii, refers to the species being 

 named in honor of Dr. A. LeRoy Andrews, who described this 

 species as a varietal form of H. psycodes X lacera. The species 

 was first discovered and collected by Mr. Marcus White, July 

 22, 1899. 



Tall bogland orchid, with fleshy roots. July 22d-August i6th. 



Flowers white, to rose-purple. Labellum about y^-yi inch 

 broad, divisions deeply cleft as in Habenaria lacera, yet more 

 numerous. Sepals round-oval, obtuse. Petals cuneate-spatu- 

 late and denticulate above. Arms of column slightly acute, 

 similar to Habenaria psycodes. Pollen stalked, greenish-yellow, 

 somewhat 2-lobed, not obstructing the orifice of nectary, as 

 observed in Habenaria lacera. Spur longer than ovary, clav- 

 ate, much enlarged below. Ovary intermediate or rather short. 



