ORCHID FAMILY, 

 i. Hexalectris aphyllus (Nutt.) Raf. Crested Coral-root. 



Bletia aphylla Nutt. Gen. a: 194. 1818. 

 Hexalectris sgt/amosus Raf. Fl. Tell. 4: 48. 1836. 



Hexalectris aphyllus Raf. ; A. Gray, Man. Ed 6 501 

 1890. 



48! 







brc 



Scape stout, 8'-2o' high, its upper scales lancco- 

 te, the lower sheathing and truncate or acute, 

 ceme 4'-?' long, 8-i2-flo\veral; flowers large, 

 rownish purple, i' high or more; pedicels short, 

 stout; sepals and petals narrowly elliptic, obtuse or 

 acutish, spreading, striped with purple veins, 6"- 

 9" long, longer than the broad lip; middle lobe of 

 the lip rounded or crenulate, the lateral ones 

 orter, rounded; column slightly spreading at the 

 mit, shorter than the lip; capsule ellipsoid, 

 early i' long, the fruiting pedicels 4 // -5 // long. 



In rich woods, North Carolina to Kentucky and Mix 

 ri, south to Florida and northern Mexico. AUK. 



17. APLECTRUM Nutt. Gen. 2: 197. 1818. 



Scapose herbs, from a conn, produced from the one of the previous icason by an offset. 

 le scape clothed with several sheathing scales. Leaf solitary, basal; developed in autumn 

 or late summer, broad, petioled. Flowers in terminal racemes, the pedicels subtended by 

 small bracts. Petals and sepals similar, narrow. Lip clawed, somewhat .vridged, spur 

 none. Column free, the anther borne a little below its summit. Polhnu 4, lens-shaped. 

 oblique. [Greek, meaning without a spur.) 



A monotypic North American genus. 



i. Aplectrum spicatum (Walt.) B.S.P. Ar un and -Kvc. Putty-root. 



(Fig. 1147-) 



Arethusa sf>icata Walt. l-'l. Car. 733. 1788. 

 Cymbidium hyi-malt Willd .-ij. 1805. 



Aplectrum hyemale Nc 198. iftlft. 



Aplectrum spicatum B.S.P. Prel. Cat. N. V. ST. 



1888. 



Scape glabrous, i-2 high, bearing about 3 

 scales. Leaf arising from the corns, at the side 

 of the scape, elliptic or ovate. 4'-6 / long, 

 wide, usually lasting over winter; raceme 

 long, loosely several-flowered; flowers dull yel- 

 lowish brown mixed with purple, about i' long. 

 short-pedicelled; sepals and petals linear-lance- 

 olate, about X' long; lip shorter than the petals, 

 obtuse, somewhat 3-lobed and undulate; column 

 slightly curved, shorter than the lip; capsule 

 oblong-ovoid, angled, about to" long. 



In wood* and swamp*. Ontario to the Northwest 

 Territory and Oregon, south to Georgia, Missouri 

 and California. Several old conns usually liassiu 

 attached to the latest one. May-June. 



