8o THE ORCHID FAMILY. 



and in moist, wooded places where perhaps trails a small stream the plant 

 grows well, its range from Florida and Louisiana extends northward to 

 Newfoundland. 



H. flciva^ small pale green orchid, is readily known by its long, loose 

 spike of tiny green flowers and their large sharp-pointed bracts. The sepals 

 are greenish yellow. The lip which is but little longer than the other petals 

 is a strange formation having two blunt side teeth, and is well worth placing 

 under a microscope. Sometimes the plant grows as high as two feet. It 

 has a leafy stem, the foliage being lanceolate, oval or elliptical, thin and 

 smooth. 



H.grandijlq^a, large purple-fringed orchid, {Plate XXV.) is the largest 

 and handsomest of the group of so-called purple-fringed orchids, and un- 

 doubtedly one of our most regal wild flowers. Its abundant inflorescence 

 of a bright, pinkish lavender is exceedingly showy. Often the lip occurs 

 quite an inch long in robust plants. It is three-parted, appearing fan-shaped 

 and is terminated by a deep, delicate fringe. Backward it extends into a 

 long, slender spur. The upper sepals and petals are erect, the latter slightly 

 toothed. Occasionally these beautiful flowers are heavily fragrant and occur 

 also in an almost white form. The leafage of the stem is oval or lanceolate 

 and blunt at the apices. From one to five feet high the plant grows and 

 from June until August throws out its bloom. It probably does not extend 

 further southward than North Carolina. 



H. psycbdes, small purple-fringed orchid, is very like, but smaller than the 

 preceding plant ; its racemes being seldom over six inches long and always 

 marked by a faint fragrance. In meadows and swamps it grows, greatly, it 

 would seem, preferring the latter and at an ascent in North Carolina of 6,000 

 feet. 



H. peram&na, fringeless purple orchid, {Plate XXVI?) is found in moist 

 meadows, or by the borders of mountain streams from Kentucky and Vir- 

 ginia northward to New Jersey. It is a plant tall and striking in appearance, 

 although the flower's lip has not the delicate fringe which makes so attrac- 

 tive its near relatives. This part, however, is deeply divided into three 

 spreading, fan-shaped segments, the middle one being the larger and having 

 two lobes, which, at their summits, are irregularly toothed. The elliptical, or 

 lanceolate leaves sheathe the stem at their bases. Those near the flowers 

 are very small. 



