452 OECHIDACE^. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 



them. Pollen-masses 4, in one row (2 in each cell), cohering by pairs at the 

 apex, waxy, without any stalks or elastic connecting tissue. Little herbs from 

 solid bulbs, producing simple stems or scapes, which bear 1 or 2 leaves, and a 

 raceme of minute greenish flowers. (Name composed of /u/epos, little, and orvXt's, 

 a column or style.) 



1. HI. monophyllos, Lindl. Slender (4' -6' high); leaf solitary, 

 sheathing the base of the stem, ovate-elliptical ; raceme spiked, long and slender ; 

 pedicels not longer than the flowers ; lip triangular-halberd-shaped, long-pointed. 

 Cold wet swamps, N. New England to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 July. (Eu.) 



2. M. opliioglossoides, Nutt. Leaf solitary near the middle of tho 

 stem, ovate, clasping ; raceme short and obtuse ; pedicels much longer than the flow- 

 ers ; lip obtusely auricled at the base, 3-toothed at the summit. Damp woods ; 

 more common southward. Plant 4' - 10' high. July. 



14. L, I PARIS, Richard. TWAYBLADE. 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, linear, or the latter thread-like, spreading. 

 Lip flat, entire, often bearing 2 tubercles above the base. Column elongated, 

 incurved, margined at the apex. Anther, &c. as in the last. Small herbs, with 

 solid bulbs, producing 2 root-leaves and a low scape, which bears a raceme of few 

 purplish or greenish flowers. (Name from Xurapos, fat or shining, in allusion to 

 the smooth or unctuous leaves.) 



1. I*. li Hi folia, Richard. Leaves 2, ovate ; petals thread-like, reflexed ; 

 lip large (%' long), wedge-obovate, abruptly short-pointed, brown-purplish. (Malaxis 

 liliifolia, Swartz.) Moist woodlands : commonest hi the Middle States. June. 



2. L,. Loeselii, Richard. Leaves 2, elliptical-lanceolate or oblong, sharp- 

 ly keeled ; lip obovate or oblong (2" long), mucronate at the incurved tip, yellow- 

 ish-green, shorter than the linear unequal petals and sepals. (Malaxis Correana, 

 Barton.) Bogs and wet meadows, New England to Penn., Wisconsin, and 

 northward : rare. June. (Eu.) 



15. CORALL.ORHIZA, Haller. CORAL-SOOT. 



Flower ringent ; the oblong or lanceolate sepals and petals nearly alike, the 

 lateral ascending and the upper arching : lip spreading above, with 2 projecting 

 ridges or lamellae on the face below, slightly adherent at the base to the 2-edged 

 straightish column, and often more or less extended into a protuberance or short 

 spur coalescent with the summit of the ovary. Anther 2-lipped, terminal and 

 lid-like. Pollen-masses 4, obliquely incumbent, soft-waxy or powdery, free. 

 Brownish or yellowish herbs, destitute of green foliage, with much-branched 

 and toothed coral-like root-stocks (probably root-parasitical), sending up a sim- 

 ple scape, furnished with sheaths in place of leaves, and bearing small and dull- 

 colored flowers in a spiked raceme. (Name composed of /copoXAioi/. coral, and 

 pffa, root.) 



* Lip 3-lobed (the middle lobe very much largest) and with 2 distinct lamellce or plaited 

 ridges on thi face, wtitish, usually spotted or mottled with crimson. 



