ORCHIDACE^E 



A very handsome flower (for one thinks more of the 

 showy corolla than of the large, and basal leaves which 

 slightly resemble those of the Lily-of-the- Valley) made so 

 conspicuous by its corolla being inflated and folded in 

 so that it resembles a pocket-roll. 



ORCHIDACE^E ORCHID FAMILY 



Hdbenaria blephariglottisj (Willd.) Torr. 



White White Fringed Orchid, 



Rein Orchid, 

 July-August Feather-leaved Orchid. 



Habenaria: name from Latin for a thong or rein, in allusion 



to the shape of the lip or spur of some species. 

 Blephariglottis: Greek for an eyelid. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: sandy bogs. 



THE PLANT: erect, twelve to twenty-four inches high; the 

 stem unbranched, dark green, without hairs, grooved and 

 angled. 



THE LEAVES: few; erect; alternate; lanceolate; without 

 hairs on either surface; four inches to eight inches long; 

 the upper decidedly smaller; acute at the apex; stemless, 

 in fact sheathing; parallel- veined; mid-rib prominent 

 below. 



THE FLOWERS: rather small, in a raceme or spike, which 

 is three inches to six inches long and sometimes three 

 inches thick; the sepals round or elliptical, concave, acute; 

 the petals linear-oblong, somewhat pointed, toothed above; 

 the lip narrowly ovate-lanceolate, fringed. 



THE FRUIT: a capsule. 



The Habenaria blephariglottis and the lacera associate 

 themselves in one's mind, partly because their flowers grow 

 similarly in loose racemes; but they are easy to distinguish 

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