Hahenaria. ORCHID ACE^E. 



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large petiolod plaited leaf. Flowers rather large, soon dcflexed. — Otlicrwise as tlio 

 last genus. A single species. 



1. A. hiemale, Torn Scape a foot high or more, with 3 or 4 greenish sheaths : 

 the radical leaf ovate-oblong to broadly oblanceolate, 4 to 8 inclies long, many- 

 nerved, continuing through the winter: llowers G to 20 in a loose raceme, tlie ovary 

 attenuate into a slender pedicel : perianth G lines long, narrow at base ; .sepals and 

 petals linoar-ol)long, greenish-brown, .O-norved ; lip whitish or somewhat spotted, 

 many-n(>rv(!d, slightly shurli-r than the sepals, bioadly obovatn, iittcnuato into a tlis- 

 tinct claw; the middle lobe undulate-margined: column nearly uniform in thick- 

 ness, very narrowly margined. — Compend. 322, i^ Fl. N. Y. ii. 270, t. 127. Cym- 

 bidiam hiemale, Willd. 



Collected by Nuttnll in Oregon ami probably to be found in Nortliern California, though not 

 otherwise known from west of tlie IJocky jMountains : eastward it ranges from the Saskatchewan to 

 Arkansas and the Atlantic, in rich woodlands, not common. The bulbs are renewed each year 

 and are pei-sistcnt to the number of 4 or 5 upon the slender rootstock, G to 12 lines in diameter, 

 their substance exceedingly glutinous. The capsule is described as ovoid-oblong, rather large. 



4. HABENARIA, WiUd. 



Perianth ringent ; sepals and petals nearly alike, convergent, or the lower sepals 



spreading. Lip flat and spreading, 3-lobed or entire, with a slender spur at base, 



without ridges or callosities. Column very short. Anther persistent upon the face 



of the column immediately above the stigma, the cells parallel or divergent at base. 



Pollen-masses one in each cell, of coarse grains united by an elastic web, each 



attached at base by a pedicel to an exposed viscid gland on the tipper edge or at 



the side of the stigma. — Stems leafy or bmcteate, often tall, from fleshy-fibrous or 



tuberous roots : llowers spicato or racemose, in our species not showy : capsules 



erect. — Gi/mnadenia, II. Brown, and PUdanthera, Eichard. 



A large and widely tlisjierscd genus ; twenty or more .'species are found in the Atlantic States, 

 several with handsome wliite, yellow or juu'plo flowers and the lip often fringed. The following 

 species all belong to the section PlatanOicra, having the anther-cells widely divergent at base and 

 the glands distant. 



* Stem mostly slender, from a7i ovate or oblong tuber nn inch long, bracteate, with 

 2 or 3 leaves at base: flowers small, greenish, the lip scarcely exceeding the 

 uniform 1-nerved sej)als. 



1. H. elegans, Bolander. Stem rather stout, a foot or two high : leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, 4 to 8 inches long : spike usually dense, many-flowered ; the 

 subulate acuminate bracts a little shorter than the flowers : sepals and petals equal, 



2 lines long, the former oblong, obtuse, the latter ligulate and fleshy, obscurely 

 3-nerved ; the lip similar, with a flliform spur equalling or exceeding the ovary, 



3 to 5 lines long : pollen-masses large, half a lino long : beak of tlie stigma promi- 

 nent, broad and rounded : capsule oblong, nearly sessile, 3 or 4 lines lung. — Cat. 

 PI. St. Franc. 29. Platanthera elegans, Lindl. Orch. 285. 



Near the coast, from Jlontercy (Harlwcg) to Vancouver Island (Lyall), on hillsides, under oaks, 

 pines, etc. 



2. H. Unalaschensis, "Watson. ]\rore slender, with nn elongated and more 

 open spike of smaller white or greenish flowers : leaves narrowly lanceolate to 

 linear : bracts ovate, acutish, or rarely acuminate, not exceeding the ovary : sepals, 

 petals and lip about a line long, the narrow or somewhat clavate spur scarcely or 

 sometimes nearly twice longer : capsule ol)long, sessile or nearly so, 3 hues long. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 277. Sjnrauthcs (/nalaschcensis, Sprcng. Syst. iii. 708. //. 



