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180. GYMNADENIOPSIS. {HABENARIA, IN PART.) 



Fibrous- or slightly tuberous-rooted orchids of moist woods 

 or bogs, with leafy stems. Flowers in a terminal spike, be- 

 tween each flower of which is a leaf-like bract mostly shorter 

 than the flower. Lip not fringed or crested, sometimes 3- 

 toothed, slightly roughened in the second species. Spur long 

 and slender, much longer than the lip. 

 Flowers white. 



181. GYMNADENIOPSIS NiVEA. No commou name. Stem 

 leafy, angled, about i ft. high. Leaves-nearly linear, 4-7 in. 

 long, diminishing upward into bracts. Spike about 3 in, long, 

 the flowers small, long-spurred. Lip not 3-toothed. August. 

 N. J. to Fla. and Ala. ; in bogs. Fig. 181. 



Flowers orange. 



182. GYMNADENIOPSIS INTEGRA. No commou name. From 

 1-2 ft. high, the stem angled. Leaves 1-3, nearly linear, 2-8 

 in. long, much smaller above. Spike 1-3 in. long, the spur 

 not much longer than the lip, July. In bogs from N. J. to the 

 Gulf. A related species. Cymnadcniopsis clavcllata, differing 

 in having the basal leaf broadest towards the tip and in 

 having greenish-white flowers with long, curved spurs, is 

 found in moist places from Newfoundland to Fla. and west- 

 ward. 



183. LIMNORCHIS. {HABENARIA, IN PART.) 



Fleshy-rooted orchids of bogs or wet woods with leafy 

 stems and white or greenish flowers in a terminal spike. Lip 



