2U 151. Pseudorchis. 21. ORCHIDEiE. Pl.end.pL 



Sandy moors ; perennial ; May to July. 

 Root bulbose, scaly; scape 4; in. high; powers lemon- 

 colour. 



XVIII. 152. MALAXIS. Swartz. Malaxis, 

 Ovary pedicelled, generally imperfect and abortive ; peri-- 



gonium very much spread vertically; the odd sepale entirely 

 spread out, hanging ; the paired sepales upright, the inner 

 much narrower, bent back or turned over on the sides of 

 the former ; lip behind, upright, expanded, rather heart- 

 shape, pointed, generally undivided, rarely 2-cut with an 

 intermediate point, embracing the bottom of the gynoste- 

 mium by a slight or deep cut at the bottom, and enclosing 

 the bases of all the sepales ; gynostemium very short, up- 

 right, ending above and forwards in a truncate lamina, 

 nearly undivided, or at most 3-cut ; gymzus slightly de- 

 pressed into a lamina; rostellum 0; anther for some time 

 intramarginal, entirely behind, short; cells ovate, very 

 simple within ; pollen in oblong masses. — Bulb ovate, scaly, 

 rooting at the base; leaves few, alternate, sheathing; scape 

 angular; raceme many-flowered ; hractece. small ; herb light 

 green ; leaves few ; fioivers greenish. 



Malaxis paludosa. Marsh malaxis. 



Leaves 3 or 4, spathulate, rough at the tip. 



Orchis minima bulbosa, Dillen in Rati Syn. 378, 9. 



Bifolium palustre, Park. 503; Raii Syn. 385,3. 



Ophrys paludosa, Lin. S. P. 1341. 



Malaxis paludosa, Swartz, 163. 



Malaxis palustris, Richard Mem. Mus. 4, 60, 



Marsh twayblade. 



Spongy bogs ; perennial ; June and July. 



Scape 4 in. high, rather naked ; ,;?0M/er5 yellow-green ; 

 3 outer sepales twice as large as the inner; Up only half as 

 long as the sepales. 



XIX. 153. CORALLORHIZA. UsMerJi. j Coral-root, 

 Ovary pedicelled, pedicell short; perigonium sxched in 



an oblong form ; lip oblong reyersed-oval, channelled be-, 

 low, slightly cut on each edge with a small crenule, sprea(l 

 over on the inside with prominences disposed lengthwise, 

 ^bove spreading and turned back ; penile very short, ad- 

 nate ; gynostemium long, wingless, rather channelled before 

 ^ith prominent edges; gynizus nearly semiorbiculate; ros'^ 



