508 ORCHIDACE^E. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 



8. CALOPOGON, R. Br. CALOPOGON. 



Flower with the ovary or stalk not twisting, therefore presenting its lip on the 

 upper or inner side. Sepals and petals nearly alike, lance-ovate, spreading, dis- 

 tinct. Lip spreading, distant from the column, raised on a narrowed base or 

 stalk, dilated at the summit, strongly bearded along the upper side. Column 

 free, slender, winged at the apex. Anther terminal and lid-like, sessile : pollen- 

 masses 4 (two in each cell), of soft powdery grains, lightly connected by delicate 

 threads. Scape from a small solid bulb, sheathed below by the base of the 

 grass-like leaf, naked above, bearing several flowers. Bracts minute. (Name 

 composed of /caXos, beautiful, and Trcoycoi/, beard, from the bearded lip.) 



1. C. pulch&lus, K. Br. Leaf linear; scape about 1 high, 2~6-flow- 

 ered ; lip as if hinged at the insertion, beautifully bearded towards the dilated 

 summit with white, yellow, and purple club-shaped hairs. Bogs : common. 

 June, July. Flowers 1 ' broad, pink-purple. . 



9. CALYPSO, Salisb. CALYPSO. 



Sepals and petals nearly similar, ascending, spreading, lanceolate, pointed. 

 Lip larger than the rest of the flower, sac-shaped, inflated (9" long), 2-pointed 

 underneath the apex. Column broadly winged and petal-like, ovate, bearing 

 the lid-like anther just below the apex : pollen-masses waxy, 2, each 2-parted, 

 all sessile on a square gland. A little bog-herb; the solid bulbs producing a 

 single ovate or slightly heart-shaped thin leaf, as in Aplectrum, and a short 

 (3' -5' high) scape, sheathed below, bearing a large and showy (variegated 

 purple, pink, and yellow) flower. (Name from the goddess Calypso.} 



1. C. borelis, Salisb. Cold bogs and wet woods, the bulbs resting in 

 moss, Northern New England to Michigan, and northward. May. A very 

 local and beautiful plant. Lip somewhat resembling that of a Lady's Slipper, 

 woolly-hairy inside. (Eu.) 



10. TIPTJIiAllIA, Nutt. CRANE-FLY ORCHIS. 



Sepals and petals spreading, oblong ; the latter rather narrower. Lip pro- 

 longed underneath into a thread-like ascending spur twice or thrice the length 

 of the flower (9" -12" long), 3-lobed; the middle lobe linear, a little, wavy, as 

 long as the petals, the side lobes short and triangular. Column narrow and 

 wingless. Anther lid-like, terminal : pollen-masses 2, waxy, each 2-parted, con- 

 nected by a linear stalk with the transverse small gland. Herb with large 

 solid bulbs connected horizontally, on a distinct petiole, producing in autumn 

 a single ovate nerved and plaited leaf on a slender petiole, tinged with purple 

 beneath; and in summer a long and naked slender scape (10'- 18' high), with 

 1 or 2 sheaths at the base, bearing a many-flowered raceme of small greenish 

 flowers tinged with purple. (Name from a fancied resemblance of the flowers 

 to insects of the genus Tipula. } 



1. T. discolor, Nutt. Lip blunt at the tip (which distinguishes it from 

 a recently discovered Himalayan species). Sandy woods, Massachusetts to 

 Michigan and southward : very scarce. July. 



