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9. GOODYERA, RATTLESNAKE PLANTAIN. (John Goodyear, 

 an English botanist.) Flowers small, in summer, greenish-white, spiked 

 on a scape ; the leaves all clustered at the root, ovate, small. 



» Lip strongly saccate, with a short and spreading or recurved tip. 



G. repens, R.Br. Evergreen woods, N.; 3'-8' high, slender ; flowers 

 in a loose one-sided spike, with ovate recurved tip. 



G. pube"scens, R.Br. 6'-12' high ; larger, with leaves more beautifully 

 white-reticulated, and flowers not one-sided in the denser spike ; lip 

 globular, the tip very short. Rich woods. 



* * Lip barely saccate and tapering. 



G. Menziesii, Lindl. Woods from N. Eng., W.; 9'-12'high; leaves 

 less reticulated ; flowers loose in the spike, narrower and pointed in the 

 bud, the lip hardly sac-shaped at the base and tapering to a narrow apex. 



10. ORCHIS. (The ancient Greek name.) We have only two true 

 Orchises, viz., 



O. spectabilis, Linn. Showy Orchis. Plant with 2 oblong-obovate, 

 thick, glossy leaves (3'-5' long) from the fleshy-fibrous root, and a leafy- 

 bracted scape 4'-7' high, bearing in a loose spike a few pretty flowers, 

 pink-purple, the ovate lip white ; in late spring. Rich woods, N. Eng., 

 W. and S. 



O. rotundifdlia, Pursh. Stem 5'-9' high, 1-leaved at the base and 

 naked above, the leaf orbicular to oblong, 3' or less long ; flowers rose- 

 purple except the lip, which is white and spotted with purple. Woods 

 and bogs, N. Eng., W. 



11. HABENARIA, REIN ORCHIS. (Latin habena, a rein or thong, 

 from the shape of the lip of the corolla in some species.) Elowers in 

 a terminal spike, each in the axil of a bract, in late spring and summer. 

 In all but one species the ovary twists and the lip occupies the lower 

 or anterior side of the flower. (Lessons, Eigs. 320-322.) The follow- 

 ing is an easy arrangement of the commonest species. 



* Lip not fringed, often entire; flowers never rose or purple. 



*- Stem leafy ; leaves oblong or lanceolate ; flowers small ; anther cells 

 nearly parallel. 



++ Mowers yellow. 



H. Integra, Spreng. Pine barrens from N. J., S.; resembles H. cris- 

 tata, having small, bright, orange-yellow flowers, but the lip is ovate and 

 entire or barely crenulate ; one or two lower leaves elongated and acute, 

 oblong-lanceolate, the others becoming bract-like ; spur awl-shaped, 



s ' ++ ++ Flowers white (greenish-white in the last). 



H. nfvea, Spreng. Sandy bogs, Del., S.; l°-2° high, all the upper 

 leaves bract-like ; flowers in a loose cylindrical spike, very small, dif- 

 ferent from all the rest in having the (white) ovary without a twist, and 

 the linear-oblong entire lip with its long thread-like spur therefore looking 

 inwards. 



H. dilatata, Gray. Resembles the next, grows in same places, but is 

 commonly more slender and with linear leaves ; flowers white and nar- 

 row, open, the lanceolate lip having a rhombic-dilated base ; glands strap- 

 shaped, large, approximate. Bogs, N. 



