Goodijera. ORCHIDACEiE. |or 



7. H. Cooperi, Watson, 1. c. Stout and tall (3 feet lu^h) : flowers numerous 



2 mes long, ateral sepals oblong, th. upper ovate; lip ovate, truncate at base 

 Av.t la broad claw; sp.u- shor and thick : glands orbicular: beak of the stigma tri! 

 angular: capsule oblong, sessde, 4 or 5 lines Ion" 



c.5!::;'i;;;:;;:;;ti;t^dEr'"^'^ ^^'^^"""'' ^-'^^^^^ °" ^'^^' "^^'^ -- ^-> ^-^o ly n. 



n, 1* ,^\^''f.?'^'^.',7f'""; !• '• , "^^'^ ''''"^>=^'' t'^ ^^- ^7'«^*':/7ora, but rather taller 

 and stouter (J or J feet high) and thn llowors more numerous in the loose elongated 

 sp.ke : l.p linear shorter, but exceeding the sepals ; spur short and saccate, dilating 

 downward. — yVa^a^Mm/ r/?rrc///5, Lindl. Orch. 288. 



Oregon and Wnsl.iiigtoi, Territory (Dou,,las, Lyall, IMl, Newberry), and nrobal.lv in Northern 



5. SPIRANTHES, Richard. Ladies' Tkesses. 

 Perianth ringent, oblique on the ovary; the lateral sepals somewhat decurrenfc 

 the upi.er and the petals coherent; lip oblong, sessile or nearly so, the base 

 embracing and adherent to the column, and with a callous protuberance on each 

 side, the dilated summit spreading and undulate, usually entire. Column very 

 short, oblique, terminating in a stout terete stipe bearing the ovate stigma on the 

 face, and the beak above usually acuminate and at length bifid by tlie°separation 

 of the oblong viscid gland. Anther sessile or nearly so at the base of the stipe 

 behmd, mostly acuminate. Tollen-masses 2, thin and powdery, becomincr attached 

 above to the gland. _ Flowers small, white or greenish, 1 -3-ranked in a spirally 

 twisted spike. Stems leafy, at least below, from fascicled-tuberous roots; leaves 

 rather thin, mostly narrow and elongated, not petioled. 



A genus of 50 or more species, widely distributed through both hemispheres Our 10 or 12 

 spec.es are exclusively American and chiefly confined to the^astern siroftl.e continent. 



1. S. Romanzoffiana, Cham. Glabrous, rather stout, 4 to 18 inches high, 

 leafy, bracteate above: leaves oblongdanceolato to linear: spike dense, 3-ranked 

 conspicuously bracteate, to 4 inches long: perianth white, about 4 linos long 

 curved the sepals and petals all connivent ; lip recurved, ovate-oblong, contracted 

 below the narrower rounded wavy-crenulate summit; callosities smooth, often 

 obscure : the oblong-hnear gland and very slender bifid beak three fourths of a line 

 long : capsule oblong, 3 to 6 lines long. - Linmea, iii. 32; Reichenb. f Fl. Germ. 

 t'477 fi^ 1-3 ^ ^'''' ^- ^^^^- '^- ^"«"">''''-«' Lindl.; Keichenb. f. 1. c. 



Preyio''S;lT 7^''"^u "-r ""P'^^''^^' ^^"^'"g »^™«^ the continent; also "near the 

 I resirtio, Bolander. 1 he callosities in western si)ecimens are usually obscure. 



2. S. porrifoUa, Lindl. Very similar in habit, a foot high or more, but ^vith a 

 narrower spike and smaller flowers, the perianth 3 lines long : callosities at the base 

 ot the lip very prominent and nippledike, pointing downward. — Orch. 467. 



In the Coast Rannres (/?o«<7M, and wet i)Iaces, Sacramento Valley, Hartweq. The closely 



pronifer.Tninnir L ^T"-r ""'T Y'^'' ""^ver and especially the iip more recurved, and the 

 promuient nipple-like callosities often hairy. 



■ 6. GOODYERA, R. Brown. Rattlesnake-Pi.antain. 

 Distinguished from Spimnthes by the saccate or vontricoso lip, sessile, entire, 

 and without callosities. — Scapes fow-bractcate ; leaves thickish, rosulato at the 



