268 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Thickets in the hills, wood clearings, and moist pastures. June. 

 Distribution. — Europe, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic 

 Circle, Siberia, Western Asia. British. 



Platanthera chlorantha Custer. Butterily Orchid. 



Closely resembling the last, but taller and larger in all its parts. 

 Stems 2-2 J feet high. Anther-cells or poUinia broadly diverging. 

 Two very large leaves at the base of the stem. Flowers larger, 

 greenish white, less scented. Lip lanceolate-obtuse, yellowish 

 green. Spur long. Spike loose, from 4-6 inches long. 



Woods, rarer than the last, but widely spread. June. 



Distribution. — Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, N. Africa. British. 



Herminium R.Br. 

 Herminium Monorchis R.Br. Musk Orchid. 



A small, slender plant, 4-6 inches high, with usually 2 oval- 

 lanceolate radical leaves. Tubes nearly globular, the new one 

 being produced at the end of one of the root-fibres proceeding 

 from the crown. Spike slender, with many small yellowish green 

 flowers. Sepals erect and narrow. ' Petals ' narrower and rather 

 longer. Lip scarcely longer, hoUowed into a sort of pouch at the 

 base, but not spurred, with 3 narrow, entire lobes. Plant smelling 

 of Musk. 



Mossy banks, hillsides and mountain pastures up to at least 

 4000 feet. June, July. 



Distribution. — Mountains of Southern Europe. Hilly pastures of 

 Central, Northern, and Arctic Europe, and Russian Asia. England. 



GOODYERA R.Br. 

 Goodyera repens R.Br. 



Rootstock creeping, with a few thick fibres. Stems 6-10 inches 

 high, with a few ovate stalked leaves near the base. Spike uni- 

 lateral, with small greenish white flowers ; the lateral sepals 

 shorter and more spreading than the upper sepal and petals. 



Shady mountain woods ; rather rare. July. 



Distribution. — Central, Northern, and Arctic Europe, extending 

 to the Caucasus and Altai ; Northern Asia and America ; Scotland. 



Epipogum S.G. Gmel. 

 Epipogum aphyllum Swartz. 



Rootstock with a number of thick, fleshy branches, like those of 

 Coralroot. Stem 6 inches high, pale, with a few small sheathing 

 bracts. Flowers 3 or 4 in a loose raceme, rather large, pale yellow 

 with purpHsh markings, pendulous with the lip upwards, it being 

 large, ovate and somewhat concave. 



