384 ORCHIDEJ&. [MALAXIS. 



* Glands of stalks of pollen masses in pouches of the rostellum. 



Spur long; both glands in one pouch 11. Orchis. 



Spur ; both glands in one pouch 12. Aceras. 



Spur 0; glands in separate pouches 13. Ophrys. 



** Glands of stalks of pill en musses naked, not in pouches of the rostellum. 



Spur . , 14. Herminium. 



Spur long or short 15. Habenaria. 



TRIBE IY. CYPRIPEBIE'-ffi. Anthers 2; rostellum prolonged into a 



shield between the anthers ; pollen powdery. 

 Lip large, saccate 16. Cypripedium. 



1. MALAX IS, Sw. 



A small green subsucculent herb. Leaves few, broad, short. Flowers 

 minute, racemose, green. Sepals and very small petals spreading. Lip 

 superior, minute, entire, concave. Anther hinged on to the top of the 

 minute column, persistent ; pollen-masses 4, waxy, attached to one gland. 

 Stigma depressed ; rostellum minute. DISTRTB. Europe (Arctic) N. of 

 the Alps, N. Asia. ETYM. /jLd\ais, in allusion to its softness. 



M. paludo'sa, Sw. ; leaves obovate obtuse. Bog Orchis. 



Sphagnum swamps and bogs, from Devon and Kent to Sutherland, rare, 

 and easily overlooked ; ascends to 1,500 ft. in N. England ; local in 

 Ireland ; fl. July-Sept. Stem 1-4 in., swollen and sheathed with white 

 scales at the base, forming a new plant at the side of the old, angled above. 

 Leaves few, fringed with cellular bulbils that develop new plants. Raceme 

 elongate, many-fld. ; bracts minute ; pedicel twisted. Flowers $ in., yellow- 

 green ; sepals ovate ; petals linear-oblong, recurved ; lip about equalling 

 the petals, erect, acute, embracing the column at its base. 



2, LI PARIS, Rich. 



Habit of Malaxis, but usually 2-leaved. Sepals and petals spreading, 

 linear. Lip inferior or superior, broader than the sepals, entire. Anther 

 terminal on the slender column, deciduous ; pollen-masses 4, waxy, glands 

 evanescent. Stigma small, depressed ; rostellum minute. DISTRIB. 

 Temp, and trop. regions ; species 100. ETYM. Xnrapos, from its greasy 

 texture. 



L, Iioesel'ii, Rich. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute keeled petioled, lip 

 oblong- obovate mucronate. Sturmia, Reichb. Fen Orchis. 

 Spongy bogs, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hunts, Cambridge ; fl. July. Stem 4-8 in., 



swollen and sheathed with white scales at the base, 3-gonous and leafless 



above. Leaves 1-3 in. Flowers few, | in., ascending, pale yellow-green ; 



bracts mostly small. DISTRIB. Europe N. of the Alps, Italy, Turkey. 



