502 ORCHIDACEiE. (ORCHIS FAMILY.) 



12. H. ciliaris, R. Br. (Yellow Fringed-Orchis.) Leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate; the upper passing into pointed bracts, which are shorter than the ova- 

 ries; spike oblong, rather closely many-flowered; flowers bright orange-yellow ; 

 lateral sepal rounded, reflexed ; petals linear, cut-fringed at the apex ; Up oblong, 

 about half the length of the spur, furnished with a very long and copious capillar 1/ fringe. 

 (O. ciliaris, L.) — Wet sandy places, New England to Michigan, and especially 

 southward : rare north of New Jersey. July - Sept. — Our handsomest species, 

 1 10 _ 00 high, with a short spike of very showy flowers ; the lip i' long, the con- 

 spicuous fringe fully 4/ long on each side. 



13. H. blephariglottis, Hook. (White Fringed Orchis.) Leaves, 

 &c. as in the last; flowers white; petals spatulate, slightly cut or toothed at the 

 apex ; lip ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, with the irregular capillary fringe of 

 the margins usually shorter than its disk, one third the length of the spur. — 

 Var. holopetala (Platanthera holopetala, Lindl.) has narrower petals with 

 the toothing obsolete, and the lip less fringed. — Peat-bogs and borders of 

 pond?, with the preceding, commonly taking its place in the northward. July. 

 — A foot high, the flowers beautiful, but rather smaller than in the last. 



■*- *- (Greenish Fringed-Orchis.) Lip 3-parted above the stalk-like base, the 

 divisions cut into capillary fringes : flowers greenish- or yellowish-white : anther- 

 cells not very divergent, the beaked bases, supported on the upper edge of the broad 

 arms of the stigma, projecting forwards ; the large glands oval or lanceolate, trans- 

 verse, nearly facing each other : ovary short-tapering at the summit : the long spurs 

 gradually thickened downward. 



14. H. leucophsea. Leaves oblong-lanceolate ; the bracts similar, rather 

 shorter than the (large) flowers; spike commonly elongated, loose; petals obo- 

 vate, minutely cut-toothed ; divisions of the lip broadly wedge-shaped or fan-shaped, 

 many-cleft to the middle into a copious thread-like fringe ; spur longer than the ovary 

 (l'-lj' long); glands transversely oval. (Orchis leucophaja, Nutt.) — Moist 

 meadows, Ohio to Wisconsin and southwestward. July. — Stem 2° -4° high. 

 Lip 7" -10" long. 



15. H. lacera, R. Br. (Ragged Fringed-Orchis.) Leaves oblong or 

 lanceolate ; raceme loosely many-flowered ; petals oblong-linear, entire ; divisions 

 of the Up narrow, deeply parted into a few long nearly capillary lobes; spur about the 

 length of the ovary ; glands lanceolate, as long as the stalk of the pollen-mass. 

 (O. psycodeSj Muhl., &c, not of L. Platanthera psychodes, Lindl. 0. lacera, 

 Michx.) — Bogs and moist thickets : common. July. 



■1- •*- -t- (Purple Fringed-Orchis.) Lip fan-shaped, 3-parted above the stalk- 

 like base, the dilated divisions erosely fringed : flowers purple : anther-cells wt&ely 

 sepn nihil, but little divergent, their tapering bases (supported as in the preceding) 

 strongly projecting, the orbicular glands looking obliquely forwards and downwards ; 

 orary contracted only at the summit : the long curving spur somewhat thickened 

 downward. 



16. H. psyc6des, Gray. Leaves oblong or lanceolate, the uppermost 

 passing into linear>lanceolate bracts; raceme cylindrical, densely many-flowered; 

 lowt r sepals round-oval, obtuse : petals wedge-obovate or spatulate, <l nticulate above ; di- 

 visions of the spreading lip broadly wedge-shaped, many-cleft into a short fringe. 



