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cate threads. Scape from a small solid bulb, sheathed below by the base of 

 the grass-like leaf, naked above, bearing several large flowers. Bracts minute. 

 (Name composed of ita\6s, beautiful, and irtayuv, beard, from the bearded lip.) 

 1. C. pulchellus, It. Br. Leaf linear; scape about 1 high, 2-6-flow- 

 ered ; flowers V broad, pink-purple ; lip as if hinged at the insertion, beautifully 

 bearded toward the dilated summit with white, yellow, and purple club-shaped 

 hairs. Bogs, Newf . to Fla., west to Minn, and Mo. 



14. POGONIA, Juss. 



Flower irregular, the sepals and petals separate. Lip crested or 3-lobed. 

 Column free, elongated, club-shaped, wingless. Anther terminal and lid-like, 

 stalked; pollen-masses 2 (one in each cell), powdery-granular, (nuywias 

 bearded, from the lip of some of the original species.) 

 1 . Sepals and petals nearly equal and alike, pale rose-color, sometimes white. 



1. P. ophioglossoides, Nutt. Root of thick fibres ; stem (6 - 9' high) 

 bearing a single oval or lance-oblong leaf near the middle and a smaller one or 

 bract near the terminal flower, rarely one or two others with a flower in the 

 axil ; flower V long, sweet-scented ; lip spatulate, appressed below to the col- 

 umn, beard-crested and fringed. Bogs, Newf. to Fla., west to N. Ind. and 

 Minn. June, July. (Japan.) 



2. P. pendula, Lindl. Stem (3 - 8' high) from oblong tubers, bearing 

 3 to 7 alternate ovate-clasping very small (3 - 6") leaves, the upper 1-4 with 

 drooping flowers in their axils on slender pedicels ; perianth $' long, narrow ; 

 lip spatulate, somewhat 3-lobed, roughish or crisped above, crestless. Damp 

 woods, N. Eng. to Fla., west to Wise, and Mo. 



2. Sepals linear, dingy or brownish, longer and much narrower than the erect 

 or connivent petals ; Up 3-lobed at the apex, crested down the middle, beard- 

 less ; flowers solitary (or rarely a pair), terminal ; root a cluster of fibres. 



3. P. divaricata, R. Br. Stem (1-2 high) bearing a lanceolate leaf in 

 the middle, and a leafy bract next the flower, which is recurved on the ovary ; 

 but the sepals ascending or diverging, spatulate-linear, longer than the lan- 

 ceolate-spatulate pointed and flesh-colored petals, these about 1-1^ long. 

 Wet pine-barrens, N. J. to Fla. June, July. 



4. P. verticillata, Nutt. Stem (6 -12' high) naked, except some small 

 scales at the base and a whorl of mostly 5 obovate or obovate-oblong sessile leaves 

 at the summit ; flower dusky purplish, on a peduncle longer than the ovary and 

 capsule; sepals more than twice the length of the petals, narrowly linear, spread- 

 ing from a mostly erect base (1^-2' long) ; lip with a narrow crest down the 

 middle. Low woods, N. Eng. to Fla., west to Ind. and Wise.; rather rare, 

 especially eastward. May, June. Glaucous when young. Fruit-stalk erect, 

 about \Y long, more than half the length of the leaves. 



5. P. affinis, Austin. Somewhat smaller than the preceding; leaves 

 paler and rather narrower ; flowers (not rarely in pairs) yellowish or greenish ; 

 peduncle much shorter than the ovary and capsule ; sepals but little longer than 

 the petals, tapering to the base ; lip crested over the whole face and on the 

 middle of the lobes. Low woods, S. W. Conn., S. New York, and N. New 

 Jersey; rare. 



