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organs just below it. Flowers violet-purple and white, mixed 

 with lighter purple, the lip wavy, not fringed, and produced 

 into a short spur. Fruit a strongly-angled pod. 

 Showy Orchis. Galcorchis spectabilis. (Orchis spccta- 

 hilis.) Stems 5-angled, not over i ft. tall. Leaves broadest 

 toward the tip less than 8 in. long, half as broad. Spike 3-6 

 flowered. Flowers about i in. long. Pod i in. long. May. New 

 Brunswick to Ga. and westward. Fig. 157. 



158. LARGE ORCHIS. LYSIAS. 



Stout orchids of mountain woods with 2 large basal 

 leaves and a long loose, terminal raceme of greenish-white 

 flowers. Lip not fringed, narrow, the spur long and narrow, 

 h^ruit a cylindric or club-shaped, decidedly stalked pod. 

 Large Orchis. Lysias orbiculata. (Habcnana orbiculata.) 

 Stalk of the flower cluster 1-2 ft. clothed with small, scale- 

 like leaves. Leaves nearly round, about 53/^ in. in diame- 

 ter, silvery below, flat on the ground. Flowers about 3^ in. 

 long, on short stalks. Lip white, nearly ^ in. long. Sum- 

 mer. Newfoundland to N. Car., not near the coast, and 

 westward. Fig. 158. A related species, Lysias Hookcriana 

 which differs in having the stalk of the flower cluster without 



