ORCHID FAMILY. Orchldacea* 



Spiranthes Spiranthes Romanzoffiana replaces it in 

 Romanzofflana northern regions. This shorter species has 

 White, creamy a thick and short flower-spike, with very 

 or greenish fragrant greenish cream white flowers 

 somewhat hooded by the combined sepals 

 and petals. Leaves linear. 6-12 inches high. Me., N. 

 Y. , and Pa. , west to Minn, and Cal. 



A remarkably odd and attractive little 



Rattlesnake orchid, with the very dark blue-olive green 

 Plantain , , .,, *;, , _. 



Epipactis re- leaves marked with darker cross- veins. It 



pens var. ophioi- has ascaly, slender, slightly woolly flower- 

 des (Femald) stem, set on one side only with translucent 

 White, creamy greenish or creamy white small flowers ; 

 Juf^'early ^ ne sacu ^e ^P ^ ^ ne flower has a recurved 

 August " wavy margin. The pollen-masses, called 



pollinia, are made up of numerous packets 

 connected by threads which run together and form a 

 single flattened brown ribbon the end of which is fas- 

 tened to the rostellum. The rostellum when rubbed is 

 removed and carries with it a bit of membrane to which 

 the pollinia are attached ; this clings to the tongue of the 

 bee, and all is properly withdrawn, and carried to 

 another probably more mature flower, whose stigma is 

 easily accessible, as in the case of Spiranthes. Named 

 for John Goodyear an early English botanist. r 5-8 inches 

 high, rarely higher. Under hemlocks and spruces, in 

 the northern woods. Me., N. H. (frequent in the White 

 Mts.), south to the Great Smoky Mts. of N. Car., west 

 to Mich. The original species G. repens is. definitely 

 known only in the extreme north and in the Rocky Mts. 

 Epipactis ^ke c o mmones t species in northern New 



tesselata England, with a stouter stem than that of 



White, creamy the preceding species, and a little taller. 

 or greenish Leaves 5-9 ribbed, the veins bordered by 



pale green pencilings, the whole leaf irregu- 

 larly mottled with light and dark green, rarely with- 

 out the markings. The lip of the flower is less sac-shaped, 

 with a less recurved margin. In hillside woods. Me., 

 northern N. Y. , south to the Catskills and Hartford, 

 Conn. (M. L. Fernald, Rhodora, vol. i., No. 1, p. 6.) 



1 Formerly Goodyera; for the older names, see Index. 

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