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beetles reproduce their markings and caterpillars their 

 knobs, this inconspicuous Small Pale-green Orchis has 

 perpetuated its tubercle to this day. 



II. CRESTED YELLOW ORCHIS 



Hahenaria cristata (Michx.) R. Br. (Plate XXII.) 



There are two yellow orchids with fringed petals, 

 H. cristata and H. ctltaris. They look much alike in word 

 descriptions, but when one has the flower of either to 

 examine, two glances will decide the species; a first one at 

 the thickness of the long spike of blossoms, H. cristata being 

 one to one and a half inches in diameter and H. ciliaris 

 nearly or quite three inches across; and a second glance at 

 the kind of fringe on the lip, H. cristata has the loose 

 fringed part deeper than the unfringed portion of the lip, 

 and H. ciliaris has a long oblong lip deeply fringed all the 

 way around. 



Hahenaria cristata is the more southern of the two. It 

 grows chiefly in bogs from New Jersey to Florida and 

 Louisiana, becoming more plentiful as it gets further south. 

 It is a slender leafy-stemmed plant, growing from eight inches 

 to two feet in height, with two or three lanceolate leaves 

 two to eight inches long clasping the angled stem at intervals 

 on its lower half, and on its upper half a number of small 

 sharply pointed leaved that pass into the flower bracts of 

 the spike. 



The spike is two to four inches long. Its bright orange 



