GYNANDRIA— MONANDRIA. Goodyera. 33 



** Anther parallel to the stigma, permanent. 

 415. GOODYERA. Goodyera. 



Br. in Ait. H. Kew. cd. 2. v. 5. 197. 



Cal. superior, of 3 ovate, concave, spreading, permanent, 

 coloured leaves, equal in length ; the 2 lateral ones 

 somewhat dilated at the outer margin, and meeting 

 under the nectary. Pet. 2, half ovate, erect, converging 

 under the upper calyx-leaf, and about the same length. 

 Nect. without a spur, as long as the petals, prominent, 

 inflated and obovate beneath, lying on the 2 lateral 

 calyx-leaves, and terminating above in an oblong, acute, 

 undivided point, shorter than the inflated part on which 

 it lies. Anth. roundish, parallel to the stigma, and fixed 

 to its upper part behind, of 2 parallel cells close toge- 

 ther, depositing the obovate, granulated masses oi pollen 

 upon the summit of the stigma. Germ, obovate, angular, 

 incurved. Style short and thick. Stigma prominent, in 

 front, somewhat angular, pointed. Caps, nearly ellipti- 

 cal, angular, furrowed. Seeds very minute. 



Creeping herbs, with long woolly 7-oots. Stems solitary, 

 simple, a span high or more ; leafy at the bottom ; bear- 

 ing several awl-shaped scattered bracteas above; and 

 each terminating in a unilateral spike, either spiral or 

 straight, of small, whitish, ivagvsintjlo'wers. 



1. G. repens. Creeping Goodyera. 



Leaves ovate. Spike spiral. Point of the nectary elon- 

 gated, deflexed. 

 G. repens. Br. as above, 198. Hook. Scot. 253. Lond. t.\44. 

 Neottia repens. Swartz Orchid. 52. fVilld.Sp.Pl.v.4.75. Comp. 



€d.4.\A4. 

 Satyrlum repens. Li7in. Sp. PL 1339. Fl. Br. 930. Engl. Bot.v.5. 



t.289. Light/. 520. t. 22. Dicks. Dr. PI. 85. Jacq.Justr.t.369. 



Fl. Dan. t.8\2. Gunn. Norveg. part 2. 3. t. 6.f. 1. 

 Epipactis n. 129.5. Hall. Hist.v. 2. 153. t. 22./, 4. Segu. Veron. 



suppl.253.t.S.f. 10. 

 Orchis radice repente. Camer. Ic. t. 35 ; good. Bauh. Hist.v. 2. 



770. f. 3, not 1 and 2. 

 O. repens. Besl. Hort. Eijst. astiv. ord.4. t.5. f. 6. 

 Pseudo-orchis. Bauh.Pin.84. Rudb. Elijs.v.'2. 209./. 8. 

 Palma Christie radice repente. Ger. Em. 227./ 

 Pyrola acutifolia polvanthos, radice geniculata. Lees. Pruss,2\0. 



t. 68. 

 In mossy alpine woods in Scotland, but rare. 



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