CORALLORHIZA 141 



It is stouter and taller than the Small Coralroot, 

 growing as high as sixteen inches, though usually shorter. 

 It has a loose raceme from two to five inches long, bearing 

 tubular flowers nearly three-quarters of an inch long. 

 They stand erect on slender pedicels, but when the capsules 

 are ripe they droop. The lip is the characteristic sign; it 

 widens from a narrow claw at the throat to a broad oval 

 (Plate LIV., Fig. 2). It has a slightly wavy margin and a 

 notch at the apex. Two short, sharp, high ridges converge 

 toward the throat. The drooping capsule is nearly half an 

 inch long when ripe. 



In Florida and Texas this Coralroot begins to bloom 

 in the woods in February and follows the spring north to 

 Massachusetts and Ohio, where it blooms in May. 



4. LARGE CORALROOT 



Corallorhiza multiflora Nutt. (Plate LIL, Fig. 2, 

 LIV., Fig. 3.) 



The characteristic of this species is that it possesses a 

 little more of everything than its kindred — more flowers, as 

 its name indicates; more inches of height, eight to twenty; a 

 longer raceme, two to eight inches, and more elaborately 

 marked flowers. It is really beautiful in its variations of 

 colours. It shades from brown to purple, from purple to 

 pink, and has a touch of white on the spotted purple-lined 

 lip, and of yellow on the spur. The absence of all green and 

 the soft blending of other colours make it noticeable, and it is 



