268 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Thickets in the hills, wood clearings, and moist pastures. June. 

 Distribution. Europe, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic 

 Circle, Siberia, Western Asia. British. 



Platanthera chlorantha Custer. Butterfly Orchid. 



Closely resembling the last, but taller and larger in all its parts. 

 Stems 2-2| feet high. Anther-cells or pollinia broadly diverging. 

 Two very large leaves at the base of the stem. Flowers larger, 

 greenish white, less scented. Lip lanceolate-obtuse, yellowish 

 green. Spur long. Spike loose, from 4-6 inches long. 



Woods, rarer than the last, but widely spread. June. 



Distribution. Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, N. Africa. British. 



HERMINIUM R.Br. 

 Herminium Manor chis R.Br. Musk Orchid. 



A small, slender plant, 4-6 inches high, with usually 2 oval- 

 lanceolate radical leaves. Tubes nearly globular, the new one 

 being produced at the end of one of the root-fibres proceeding 

 from the crown. Spike slender, with many small yellowish green 

 flowers. Sepals erect and narrow. ' Petals ' narrower and rather 

 longer. Lip scarcely longer, hollowed into a sort of pouch at the 

 base, but not spurred, with 3 narrow, entire lobes. Plant smelling 

 of Musk. 



Mossy banks, hillsides and mountain pastures up to at least 

 4000 feet. June, July. 



Distribution. Mountains of Southern Europe. Hilly pastures of 

 Central, Northern, and Arctic Europe, and Russian Asia. England. 



GOODYERA R.Br. 

 Goody era repens R.Br. 



Rootstock creeping, with a few thick fibres. Stems 6-10 inches 

 high, with a few ovate stalked leaves near the base. Spike uni- 

 lateral, with small greenish white flowers ; the lateral sepals 

 shorter and more spreading than the upper sepal and petals. 



Shady mountain woods ; rather rare. July. 



Distribution. Central, Northern, and Arctic Europe, extending 

 to the Caucasus and Altai ; Northern Asia and America ; Scotland. 



EPIPOGUM S.G. Gmel. 

 Epipogum aphyllum Swartz. 



Rootstock with a number of thick, fleshy branches, like those of 

 Coralroot. Stem 6 inches high, pale, with a few small sheathing 

 bracts. Flowers 3 or 4 in a loose raceme, rather large, pale yellow 

 with purplish markings, pendulous with the lip upwards, it being 

 large, ovate and somewhat concave. 



