308 THE KINDS OF PLANTS 



A. Lip sac-like or inflated, larger than the other p;irts. 

 B. Anthers 2, one on each side of the stjle: a spread- 

 ing sterile stamen over the summit of the 

 style: flowers generally large and droop- 

 ing 1 . Cypripedium 



AA. Lip not saccate, but spurred, and sometimes fringed: 

 flowers in a terminal spike. 



B. Sepals more or less spreading 2. Hahenaria 



BB. Sepals and petals somewhat arching together 3. Orchis 



AAA. Lip not noticeably saccate or spurred. 



B. Flowers in spikes, appearing more or less twisted 

 about the spike, in one or several rows: flow- 

 ers small. 



C. Leaves not variegated 4. Spiranthes 



cc. Leaves variegated with white veins 5. Goody era 



BB. Flowers 1 to several, in a spike-like loose raceme: 

 or terminal on a leaf-bearing stem, 

 c. Stem (scape) from one grass-like leaf: lip 



crested with colored hairs 6. Ca lopogon 



CC. Stem 1-3-leaved 7. Pogonia 



1. CYPKIPfiDIUM. Lady's Supper. Moccasin Flower. 



Distinguished by having 2 fertile anthers: pollen sticky, as though var- 

 nished on suiface, powdery beneath: lip a large, inflated, spurless sac, 

 toward which the column bends: leaves, large, broad, manv-nerved: flowers 

 large, showy. Fig. 225. 



C. spect&bile, Swartz. Stem leafy, 1-2 ft., or more: flower solitary or 

 two or three together; lip a globular sac, white, colored with purplish-pink, 

 l>2-2 in. long. In swamps, bogs and woods, north, and south in mountains. 

 June to September. One of our rare and beautiful wild flowers. 



C. acaMe, Ait. Scape 1 ft. tall, with two leaves at base, 1-flowered: 

 sepals greenish -purple, spreading: lip pink, veined with rose-purple, about 

 2 in. long, fragrant, split down the front, but edges closed. Woods and 

 bogs. May to June. 



C. pub^scens, Willd. Stem slender, leafy, 1-2 ft., usually clustered, 

 1- to several-flowered: flowers yellow, lip much inflated, with purplish stripes 

 or spots, lK-2 in. long: low woods, meadows. May to July. 



C. parvifldrum, Salisb. Stem 1-2 ft. high, leafy, 1- to several-flowered: 

 flowers yellow, fragrant: lip usually more marked with purplish spots or 

 lines than preceding and smaller, about 1 in. long. Low woods and 

 thickets. May to July. 



C. cindidum, Willd. Lip white, with purple veins and stripes, not 1 in. 

 long. A very rare species, found in bogs and wet meadows, New York and 

 New Jersey to Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky. 



