232 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



contracted in the middle, wavy-crisped at the blunt apex. 

 Stem nearly naked. Leaves oblong or lanoe-oblong. — Moist 

 banks. 



2. S. RomanZOVia'na, Chamisso. Spike dense, oblong 

 or cylindrical. Flowers pure white, in 3 ranks in the spike. 

 Lip ovate-oblong,* contracted below the wavy recurved apex. 

 Sepals and petals all connivent above. Beak of the stigma 2- 

 homed, short. Stem 5-15 inches high, leafy below, leafy- 

 braoted above ; the leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear. — Cool 

 bogs. 



3. S. eer'nua, Eichard. Eesembling the last, but the 

 lower sepals are not upturned or connivent with the upper. 

 Margins of the lower lip much incurved. Gland of the 

 stigma linear, in a long and slender beak. — Wet places. 



4. S. grac'ilis, Bigelow. Flowers in a single spirally- 

 twisted rank at the summit of the very slender scape. Leaves 

 with blades all in a, cluster at the base, ovate or oblong. 

 Scape 8-18 inohes high. — Sandy plains and pine barrens. 



4. GOODVE'KA, E. Br. Eattle-snake Plantain. 



1. G. repens, E. Br. Flowers in u, loose 1-sided spike. 

 Lip with a recurved tip. Scape 5-8 inches high. Leaves 

 thickish, petioled, intersected with whitish veins. — Woods, 

 usually under evergreens. 



2. G. pubes'eens, E. Br. Spike not 1-sided. Plant rather 

 larger than the last, and the leaves more strongly white- 

 veined. — Eich woods. 



3. G. Menzies'ii, Liudl., is found in the north-western 

 part of Ontario. The leaves are less white-veiny than the 

 preceding, and the column is continued above the stigma into 

 a conspicuous aw!-shaped beak. ' The lip, also, is hardly, if at 

 all, saccate below. 



5. EPIPAC'TIS, Haller. 



E. Hellebori'ne, Crantz. Kear Toronto, on the bank of 

 the Humber, and at Montreal. 



