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small scale-like leaves, is found from Nova Scotia to N. J. 

 and westward, rare or wanting near the coast, except north- 

 ward. 



159. TWAYBLADES. LIPARIS. 



Bulbous orchids with 2 basal erect leaves and the stalk 

 of the flower-cluster sheathed with several small scale-like 

 leaves. Flowers greenish-white in terminal racemes. Lip 

 usually broadest toward the apex, not fringed; spur none. 

 Fruit a club-shaped, angled, stalked pod. Nos. 174-176 are 

 also called Twayblades. 

 Flower cluster profuse, sometimes 6 in. long. 



160. TwAYBLADE. Liparis liliifolia. From 4-9 in. tall. Leaves 

 oval, 2-5 in. long, about half as wide, keeled below. Flower- 

 cluster sometimes 6 in. long, the flowers about yi in. long. 

 Lip wedge-shaped, as long as the petals. Pod about ^ in. 

 long. June. Woods, Me. to Ga. and westward. Fig. 160. 

 Flower-cluster scanty, never more than 3 in. long. 



161. TwAYBLADE. Lipavls Loeselii. Similar to the preceding 

 but smaller in all its parts and with the lip mostly shorter 

 than the petals. June. Nova Scotia to Ala. and westward, 

 not common. 



162. Leaves mostly borne on the stem, few or none of them 

 basal, but basal in i species of adder's mouth, see under 

 no. 172. (Nos. 163-184.) 



Flowers crested or fringed or bearded, see figs. 163-169 



Leaves 1-3, usually only i Rose Pogonia, no. 163 



Leaves more numerous 



Flowers i or 2; leaves 5 in. a whorl at the top of the stem 



Whorled Pogonia no. 164 



Flowers more numerous, in clusters ; leaves scattered on the 



stem Fringed Orchis no. 165 



Flowers not crested or fringed (roughish in the nodding pogonia, 

 no. 177) sometimes spurred, see figs. 178-184 



Leaf solitary Adder's-mouth no. 172 



Leaves 2 Twayblades no. 173 



Leaves more than 2 (only 1-3 in one orchis, see no. 182) 



