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and in Nevada at 8,000 feet. It ranges from Nova Scotia 

 to Alaska and from Maine and New York to Utah and 

 Oregon. It blooms from June to September. 



7. SMALL SOUTHERN YELLOW ORCHID 



Hahenaria Integra (Nutt.) Spreng. (Plate XVII., Fig. 2.) 



The Small Southern Yellow Orchid is not so small and 

 delicate a thing as its name implies. It is a rather strong, 

 stout, smooth plant growing from one to two feet in height 

 and bearing a dense spike one to three inches long of small 

 orange-yellow blossoms. 



It is not a common orchid, as it has the inherited idiosyn- 

 crasy of forgotten ages that makes it prefer the wet pine 

 barrens of the coast to the richer soil of the inland forests. 

 It has been collected in swamps in the pine barrens in Florida 

 and the savannahs near Wilmington, North Carolina, and 

 follows that remnant of a forgotten continent known as the 

 pine barren region as far north as New Jersey. 



Its chief characteristic is one to three strong, stout leaves 

 that tend to fold in half as they spring from their clasping 

 bases. The lowest one may be eight inches long, and 

 followed by several that are successively shorter, but often 

 there is but one, about six inches long and one inch broad, 

 which is followed by a small leaf and then seven or eight 

 bracts at intervals of about one inch, along the straight, 

 deep-ribbed stem. 



In the flower the upper sepals and petals come together 



