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THE ORCHID FAMILY. 



little rose pogonia, or some other of its clan. As the name Calopogon signi- 

 fies, its lip is exquisitely bearded with gay colours which act as a lure, no 

 doubt, to hungry insects. It is also a very different 

 structure from the lips of many other orchids, such 

 for instance, as the Cyp7'ipediujns. Rather than 

 being a pouch it forms a sort of arched roof, and 

 owing to its position on the upper side of the 

 flower gives it something the appearance of being 

 upside down. So lightly attached is this curious 

 structure that it can be lightly moved up and down 

 by the finger, much as though it were on a hinge. 



Z. initltifiorum bears many more flowers than 

 does the grass pink although they are not so 

 large, being more the size of those of L. parvi- 

 florum. The bracts, however, that subtend them 

 are somewhat longer than those of these species. 

 From western Florida to the coast of Alabama the 

 plant occurs and is somewhat of a rarity. It is 

 moreover very beautiful. So kindled, in fact, was 

 Dr. Chapman's enthusiasm concerning it that in 

 his eighty third year he walked thirteen miles to 

 see it growing in its native habitat. 



L. pallidum produces but one linear leaf and a scape with sometimes as 

 many as twenty white flowers which are tinted with purple. It is tall and 

 slender. Near the coast it grows from Florida to North Carolina being 

 mostly found in wet pine barrens. 



L. parviflbrmn grows in similar places and is a very slender species, its 

 linear leaf being almost thread-like. On the scape the bright purple flowers 

 number from three to six and as early as March they coriie into bloom. 



Liniodoritm tjiberostnn. 



LARGE CORAL=ROOT. {Plate XXX 11.) 



Corallo7-h isa in ultifibra . 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR 



Orchid. Brown mid piirplish. S-ccntless. 



RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Florida and Missotiri Jti7ie-Septc)>ilHr. 



iiortliivard attd westward. 



Flowers : growing on short pedicels in a loose, terminal raceme on a purplish 

 scape from eight to twenty inches high and naked with the exccDtion of a few, 

 close scales. Sepals and petals: similar; narrowly lanceolate. Lip: purplish 

 white; ovate; spurred, deeply; three-lobed, the middle one being broader than 

 the others and crenulate on the margins. Capsule: oblong, drooping. Leaves: 

 none. Rootstock : much branched and toothed in a way similar to coral. 



No blaze of colour ever comes from this genus ; its members are among 



the modest, unpretentious ones of the great order, OrchidacecE. But snug- 



