PLend.ph, 21. ORCHIDE.E. 14-5. Spiranthes. 209 



Bulls 1 to 3, long ; stem 6 in. high, smooth below, 

 downy above, viscid; spike long, spiral, many-flowered; 

 hractecE lanceolate, longer than the ovary, concave, pu- 

 bescent; jioxvers small, white, odorous. 



XII. 146. NEOTTIA. Lobel. Birds-nest. 



Ovary pedicelled ; perigonium laxly connivent and bent 

 into a globe ; lip spurless, heartshaped ; gynostemium shortly 

 stipitate ; gi/nizus transverse ; rastellum longer than the 

 gynizus, laminate, obliquely ascending ; proscolla apiculate, 

 minute, jointed and bent back to the hinder face of the 

 rostellum; anther intra-marginal, short-heartshape; pollen 

 in oblong masses, agglutinating a little below the tip; vesicles 

 globular, 3 or 4-cellulate. — Root fascicled; scape leafless; 

 herb brown, no part green. 



Neottia ahortiva. Abortive birds-nest. 



Nidus a.vK,Raii Syn. 382, 1 . 



Satirium abortivum, sive nidus avis, Ger. em, 228. 



Orcliis abortiva rufa, sive nidus avis, Park. 1362. 



Ophrys Nidus avis, Lin. S. P. 1339. 



Epipactis Nidus avis, Allioni Ped. 1849. 



Neottia Nidus avis. Rich. M. M. 4, 59. 



Birds-nest. 



Woods ; perennial ; May and June. 



Stem 18 in. high with alternate sheathing scales, leafless; 

 fiowers brownish ; sepales blunt ; lip obcordate, twice as 

 long as the sepales. 



XIII. 117. LISTER A. R. Brown. Tway-ltade, 



Ovary pedicelled; perigonium loosely bent into a globe; 

 lip spurless, hanging, linear, flat, 2-cut ; gynostemium. shortly 

 stipitate; gynizus transverse; rostelluut, longer than the 

 gynizus, laminate, obliquely ascending; proscolla apicular, 

 minute, jointed and bent back to tlie hinder face of the 

 rostellum; anther intra-marginal, short-heartshape ; pollen 

 in oblong masses, agghitinatnig a little belov/ the tip; vesicles 

 globular, 3 or 4-cellulate. — Root fibrous ; leaves 2, opposite, 

 sessile, curvately ribbed ; scape 2-ieaied ; JloLvers greenish, 

 loosely spiked ; capsules globular. 



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