Orchidaceae 61 



wide. Flowers 3-12 in a loose head, yel- 

 lowish-green, J an inch long; bracts nearly 

 J of an inch long; sepals and petals 

 narrow and strongly reflexed in flower, 

 much shorter than the lip; lip nearly half 

 an inch long, broadly wedge-shaped with 

 two obtuse lobes at the apex and with a 

 tooth at each side of the narrow base ; column 

 elongated but shorter than the lip, and in- 

 curved with two short projecting wings 

 above the anther. 



In hemlock woods throughout the Selkirks ; 

 flowering in July. 



Stems 3-5 inches high, smooth 

 Ophrys 

 borealis below, glandular and with long 



(Morong). silky scattered hairs among the 

 Northern flowers. Leaves oval, slightly 

 way-blade, sheathing, obtuse, an inch or 

 more long, half as broad, generally smooth. 

 Flowers few in a raceme; sepals and petals 

 nearly equal, linear, obtuse, about J of an 

 inch long; lip half an inch long, obtuse at 

 the apex with very obtuse lobes. Yellowish- 



