ORCHID FAMILY. Orchidaceas, 



woods and meadows, from Me., soutli in the mountains 

 of N. Car., west to Minn., and reported in Neb. (Webber). 



A tall and leafv northern species, with 

 Hahenaria ,, ' n ^^ 



hijperborea green, or yellow-green flowers, erect lance- 



Green, yelIow= shaped leaves, and a dense narrow flower- 

 green spike sometimes 12 inches long, or longer. 

 June-July Flower-spur short and incurved, petals, 

 sepals, and lip much shorter than the ovary. 8-30 inches 

 high. Cold, wet woods. Me., to N. J. and Iowa. 

 Hahenaria ^ very similar species with much nar- 

 dilatata rower leaves and greenish white flowers 

 Greenish white with small obtuse sepals. Flower-lip 

 June-July lance-shaped from a lozenge-shaped base. 

 Cold, wet bogs. Conn., to Mich, and Minn. 



The two large, shining, nearly round, or 

 Orchis broadly oval light green leaves usually lie 



Hahenaria upon the ground, but are sojnetimes raised 



Hookeriana above it. The somewhat twisted and 6are 

 Whitish stem bears 10-20 upright flowers, with 



J^ne-^ueust gi'^^n lateral sepals curving backward, 

 narrow j^ellow-green petals, and the throat 

 accented by two lateral spots of yellow-ochre. The ]i\) 

 is lance-shaped, incurved, and pointed ; the slender white- 

 green spur nearly 1 inch deep is especially adapted tu 

 the long tongues of the moths. 8-15 inches high. 

 Woods and borders of wooded swamps from Me. , south 

 to N. J., west to Minn, and Iowa. 



A larger species, the two nearly round 

 Green Round= , j? i • i . • r- • i 



Leaved Orchis l^^'^'^s of which are sometimes 7 inches 



Hahenaria across, and lie flat upon the ground ; they 



orbiculata are light green and shining above, and 



Whitish silver}' white beneath. The stem is not 



Jul **-Aifeust ^^^^^ ^^^ bracted ; the whitish yellow- 

 green flowers in a loose cluster, with the 

 upper sepal nearly round, the lateral ones ovate, and 

 the narrow lip obtuse and drooping, almost three times 

 the length of the small lance-shaped petals ; tlie slender, 

 curved, whitish spur nearh' 2 inches long thickened 

 toward the blunt point is peculiarly adapted to the long 

 tongue of one of the lesser sphinx-moths. ' ' A larger in- 



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