No. 229. 
HABENARIA LACERA. 
Class. Order. 
GPNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
This interesting plant flowered with us 
in the month of July. It was first disco- 
vered by Michaux, and is a native of Pen- 
sylvania and Virginia, in low meadows. 
The scape is erect, about a foot and a half 
in height: like most of the Orchideæ, it is 
difficult to cultivate. We have preserved 
it in a pot in loam and peat earth, placed 
in the shade, and kept pretty moist, but 
have no hope of its "eT ere. 
able to bring these seeds to vegetate, al- 
though nothing is more certain t t 
they do grow in their native places, and 
some of them very plentifully. 
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