ORCHID FAMILY. Orchidacese, 



„ . .. Spiranthes Romanzoffiana replaces it in 



hpiTdnttlCS *■ mi*' 



Romanzoffiana northern regions. This shorter species has 

 White, creamy a thick and short flower-spike, with very 

 or greenish fragrant greenish cream white flowers 

 Ju y- ugus somewhat hooded by the combined sepals 

 and petals. Leaves linear. 6-12 inches high. Me., N. 

 Y. , and Pa. , west to Minn, and Cal. 



A remarkably odd and attractive little 

 Rattlesnake orchid, with the very dark blue-olive green 



an am leaves marked with darker cross- veins. It 



Guoayera re- 

 pens var.ophioi- has a scaly, slender, slightly woolly flower- 

 des (Fernald) stem, set on One side only with translucent 

 White, creamy gj.ggjjjgl^ or creamy white small flowers; 



or greenis ^^^ saclike lip of the flower has a recurved 



July-early ,^ 



August wavy margin. The pollen-masses, called 



pollinia, are made up of numerous packets 

 connected by threads which run together and form a 

 single flattened brown ribbon the end of which is fas- 

 tened to the rostellum. The rostellum when rubbed is 

 removed and carries with it a bit of membrane to which 

 the pollinia are attached ; this clings to the tongue of the 

 bee, and all is properly withdrawn, and carried to 

 another probably more mature flower, whose stigma is 

 easily accessible, as in the case of Spiranthes. Named 

 for John Goodyear an early English botanist. 5-8 inches 

 high, rarely higher. Under hemlocks and spruces, in 

 the northern w^oods. Me., N. H. (frequent in the White 

 Mts.), south to the Great Smoky Mts. of N. Car., west 

 to Mich. The original species G. repens is definitely 

 known only in the extreme north and in the Rocky Mts. 

 Goodyera tesse- "^^^^ commonest species in northern New 

 lata England, with a stouter stem than that of 



White, creamy the preceding species, and a little taller. 

 or greenish Leaves 5-9 ribbed, the veins bordered by 



pale green pencilings, the whole leaf irregu- 

 larly mottled with light and dark green, rarely with- 

 out the markings. The lip of the flower is less sac-shaped , 

 with a less recurved margin. In hillside woods. Me., 

 northern N. Y., south to the Catskills and Hartford. 

 Conn, (M. L. Fernald, Rhodora, vol. i,, No. 1, p. 6.) 



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