ORCHID ACE^E. ( ORCHIS FAMILY.) 509 



(yellow) flowers ; spike oblong or cylindrical ; petals rounded, crenate ; Up ovate t 

 with a lacerate-fringed margin, scarcely shorter than the slender obtuse incurved 

 spur, which is not half the length of the ovary. Bogs, N. J. to Fla. July. 

 Flowers very much smaller than in the next. 



12. H. ciliaris, R. Br. (YELLOW FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Stem 1^-2 high; 

 leaves oblong or lanceolate ; the upper passing into pointed bracts, which are 

 shorter than the ovaries ; spike oblong, rather closely many-flowered ; flowers 

 bright orange-yellow ; lateral sepal rounded, reflexed ; petals linear, cut-fringed 

 at the apex ; lip oblong (6" long), about half the length of the spur furnished with 

 a very long and copious capillary fringe. Wet sandy places, N. Eng. to Fla. 

 and Tex., west to Mich, and Ind. Our most handsome species. 



13. H. blephariglottis, Torr. (WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Stem 1 

 high ; leaves, etc., as in the last ; flowers white, rather smaller ; petals spatulate, 

 usually slightly cut or toothed at the apex ; lip ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, 

 with the irregular capillary fringe of the margins usually shorter than its disk, 

 one third the length of the spur. Peat bogs and borders of ponds, Newf . to 

 N. J., west to Mich, and Minn. July. Var. HOLOPETALA, Torr., has nar- 

 rower petals with the toothing obsolete, and the lip less fringed. 



- -i- (GREENISH FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Lip ^-parted above the stalk-like base, the 

 divisions cut into capillary fringes ; flowers greenish- or yellowish-white ; 

 anther-cells not very divergent, the beaked bases projecting forward ; the 

 large glands oval or lanceolate, nearly facing each other; ovary short' 

 tapering above; spurs long, clavate. 



14. H. leucophifea, Gray. Stem 2-4 high; leaves oblong-lanceolate; 

 the bracts similar, rather shorter than the (large, fragrant) flowers; spike 

 commonly elongated, loose ; petals obovate, minutely cut-toothed ; divisions of 

 the lip (7-10" long) broadly wedge-shaped or fan-shaped, many-cleft to the 

 middle into a copious thread-like fringe ; spur longer than the ovary (1-1^' 

 long) ; glands transversely oval. Moist meadows, western N. Y. to Ky., Mo., 

 and Minn. July. 



15. H. lacera, R. Br. (RAGGED FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate ; raceme loosely many-flowered ; petals oblong-linear, entire ; divis- 

 ions of the lip narrow, deeply parted into a few long nearly capillary lobes; spur 

 about the length of the ovary ; glands oblong -linear, as long as the stalk of the 

 pollen-mass. Bogs and moist thickets, N. Scotia to N. C. and Ga., west to 

 Minn, and Mo. ; common. July. 



,*_ ^- +- (PURPLE FRINGED-ORCHIS.) Lip fan-shaped, 3-parted above the stalk- 

 like base, the divisions erosely fringed ; flowers purple ; anther-cells widely 

 separated, little divergent, the orbicular glands oblique ; ovary contracted 

 only at the summit ; the long curving spur somewhat clavate. 



16. H. psyc6des, Gray. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, the uppermost 

 passing into linear-lanceolate bracts; raceme cylindrical, densely many-flow- 

 ered ; lower sepals round-oval, obtuse ; petals wedge-obovate or spatulate, dentic- 

 ulate above ; divisions of the spreading lip broadly wedge-shaped, many-cleft 

 into a short fringe. Wet meadows and bogs, common; Newf. to N. C., west 

 to Ind. and Minn. July, Aug. Flowers short-pedicelled, crowded in a spike 

 of 4-10' in length^ small, but very handsome, fragrant; lip short-stalked, 



