POGONIA Tj 



verticillata, it is worth a letter to the state botanist to report 

 Pogonia afpnis, for the last published word of science is that 

 "the species is imperfectly known either here or elsewhere." 



The foregoing description of Pogonia verticillata would 

 answer for it, if reduced by one-third as far as size is con- 

 cerned, but there are several points of difference. The 

 flowers, which are sometimes two instead of one, are greenish 

 yellow and have a short flower stalk, never over a third of an 

 inch in length, and the narrow sepals, instead of flying like 

 stiflF dark ribbons, are as short, or but a trifle longer than 

 the petals. 



Of its insect visitors and its mechanical anther lids we 

 cannot speak, for it is so rare that the illustration had to be 

 made from the pressed specimen found and named by Mr. 

 Austin. 



