Orchidaceae 



Peramium 

 repens (L.) 



Salisb. 

 Northern 

 Rattlesnake 

 Plantain. 



Plant 6-10 inches high, glandu- 

 lar-hairy in the upper part of 

 the stem. Leaves oblong-lance- 

 olate, an inch or more long and a 

 third as wide, tapering to both' 

 ends, green and usually blotched 

 with white along the veins. Flowers small 

 in a one-sided spike, greenish-white, about 

 | of an inch long, densely glandular-hairy 

 on the outer surface; sepals and petals 

 erect, ovate; lip sac-like with a narrow 

 recurved tip. 



Frequent in the woods throughout the 

 Rockies, flowering in July. 



Stem stout and leafy, 6-18 inches 

 high, from a root of numerous 

 fusiform tubers. Leaves lance- 

 olate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 

 inches long. Flowers in a loose 

 spike 2-3 inches long with bracts 

 an inch long; flowers yellowish- 

 green, sepals ovate-lanceolate, dilated at the 

 base, 1 of an inch long; petals very narrow or 



Cceloglos- 



sum 



bracteatum 



(Willd.) 



Parl. 



Long-bracted 



Orchid. 



