66 Orchidaceae 



Stem 1 8 inches to 2 feet high, 

 Limnorchis , 



slender and leafy. Leaves, the 

 boreahs 



(Cham.) lower oblanceolate and obtuse, 



Rydb. the upper lanceolate, acute. Spike 



Small White of flowers often rather dense> 4 _ 8 



inches long ; bracts lanceolate, the 

 lower often much exceeding the flowers ; flow- 

 ers | an inch or more long, white or sometimes 

 yellowish or greenish- white ; upper sepals 

 ovate, obtuse, J of an inch long, lateral ones 

 oblong-lanceolate, spreading; petals lance- 

 olate, slightly shorter than the sepals; lip 

 rhombic-lanceolate, obtuse, about J of an 

 inch long; spur club-shaped about the length 

 of or shorter than the lip. 



Throughout the region in open boggy 

 places and wet meadows; flowering in June. 



Stem slender, 8-12 inches high, 

 Limnorchis 

 fragrans from a narrow fusiform tuberous 



Rydb. root. Leaves linear, acute, 2-4 



Fragrant inches long, about J an inch 



wide. Spike of flowers slender, 



lax; bracts, lanceolate, acuminate, the lower 



