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H. psycddes, Smallek Purple Fringed O. Common, especially 

 N. : leaves oblong, above passing into lance-linear bracts ; spike cylindrical, 

 4 - 10' long, crowded writh smaller and fragrant flowers ; lateral petals wedge- 

 obovate, almost entire ; lip spreading, only *' wide, cut into denser fringe. 



H. peramcBna. From Penn. W. & B. along and near the mountains : 

 flowers of size intermediate between the two preceding, the broad wedge-shaped 

 lobes of the lip moderately cut-toothed, but not fringed. 



» * Flowers greenish or yellowish-white, in late summer : glands oval or lanceolate, 

 almost facing each other : spike long and loose. 



H. leuoophsfea. From Ohio W. & S. : 2° - 4° high ; leaves lance-oblong ; 

 flowers rather large, the fan-shaped lip 3-parted, | long, and many-cleft to thw 

 middle into a thread-like fringe. 



H. l&cera, Bagged Fringed 0. Common N. & E. : l°-2° high; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong ; petals oblong-linear, entire ; divisions of the slender-stalked 

 3-parted lip narrow and slenderly fringed. 



» » « Flowers bright white, in summer: the lip fringe-margined but not cleft. 



H. bleph.arigl6ttis. White Fringed 0. Peat-bogs N. : like the next, 

 but rather smaller, 1° high, the fringe of the lance-oblong lip hardly equal to 

 the width of its body. 



* ♦ ♦ # Flowers bright orange-yellow, in late summer : glands orbicular, projecting 



on the beak-pointed bases of the very diverging anther-cells : ovary and pod 

 long, tapering to the summit. 



H. Cili&ris, Yellow Fringed O. Sandy bogs: lp-2° high; leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate ; spike short, of many crowded very showy flowers ; petals 

 cnt-fringed at apex, the oblong body of the lip narrower than the copious long 

 and fine fringe. 



H. cristdita, from Penn. S. : smaller, with nai-rower leaves, and flowers 

 only a quarter the size of the preceding, the petals crenate, and the ovate lip 

 with a narrow lacerate fringe. 



§ 2. Yellow, green, or white species, with dp entire, at least not fringed. 



• Stem leafy; ieaves oblong or lanceolate: flowers smalt: anifier-cells nearly parallel. 



H. inteera. Pine barrens from New Jersey S. : resembles H. cristata, 

 having smaU bright orange-yellow flowers, but the lip is ovate and entire or 

 barely crenulate. 



H. vir^SCeus. Wet grounds, common: 10' -20' high, with a conspicu- 

 ously bracted at length long and loose spike of small dull-green flowers ; the 

 lip oblong, almost truncate at the apex, its base with a tooth on each side and 

 a nasal protuberance on the face ; spur slender, club-shaped. 



H. viridis, var. bracte^ta. Cold damp woods N. : 6' -12' high, with 

 lower leaves obovate, upper reduced to bracts of the short spike, which are much 

 longer than the green flowers; lip truncate and 2 - 3-toothed at the tip, very 

 much longer than the sac-shaped spur. 



H. hyperbbrea. Cold low woods and bogs N. : 6' -2° high, very leafy; 

 leaves lanceolate ; spike dense, often long ; flowers greenish, the lanceolate lip 

 like the other petals, spreading, entire, about the length of the incurved spur. 



H. dilat&ta. Resembles the last, grows in same places, but commonly more 

 slender and with linear leaves ; flowers white, less wide, open, the lanceolate 

 lip with a rhombic-dilated base ; glands strap-shaped. 



H. nirea. Sandy bogs, from Delaware S. : l°-2° high, all the upper 

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

 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. 



» * Stem a naked scape: the leaves only 2 at the ground: flowers pretty large in 

 a loose spike: anther-cells widely diverging at their tapering or beak-like 

 projecting base. 



II. orbicul&ta, Great Green O. Evergreen woods and hillsides N. : a 

 striking plant ; its exactly orbicular leaves 4' - 8' wide, bright green above and 

 silvery beneath, lying flat on the ground; scape l°-2° high, bracted, bearing 

 many large greenish-white flowers in a loose raceme; sepals roundish; lip nar 



