324 ORCHIS FAMILY. 



lower faco of which is the stigma. Lip broad, erect, with a rccuiTfe* 

 rounded apex and a bearded crest down the face. Pollen-masses i, two in 

 each cell of the anther. 



7. CALOPOGON. Flowers 2, 3, or several, in a raceme-like loose spikei the lip 



turned towards the axis, diverging widely from the slender (above wing-mar- 

 gined) style, narrower at base, larger and rounded at the apex, strongly 

 bearded along the face. Sepals and the 2, petals nearly alike, lance-ovato, 

 separate and spreading. Anther lid-like : pollen-masses 4. 



8. POGONIA. Flowers one or few terminating a leaf-bearing stem; the sepals 



and petals separate; lip crested or 3-lobea. Style club-shaped, wingless: 

 stigma lateral. Anther lid-like, somewhat stalked ; pollen-masses 2, only one 

 in each cell. 



++ +H- Flowers mostly sniall, dulUcohred^ in a spike or raceme on a broitmieh or yel- 

 lowish leafiess scape : pollen-mas&es 4, globular, soft-waxy, 



9. COKALLOEHIZA. Flowers with sepals and petals nearly alike; the lip broader, 



2-ridged on the face below, from its base descends a short sac or obscure spur 

 which adheres to the upper part of the ovary. Scape with sheaths in place 

 of leaves^ the root or rootstock thickish, much branched and coral-like. 



10. APLECTRUM. Flowers as in No. 9, but no trace of a spur or sac, larger. 



Scape rising from a large solid bulb or corm, which also produces, at a differ- 

 ent season, a broad and many-nerved gi'een leaf. 



* * Anthers 2 (Lessons p. Ill, fig. 226), borne one on each side of the style, and a 

 trowel-shaped body on the upper side aiiswers to the third stamen, the one that 

 alone is present in other Orchids : pollen powdery or pulpy : stigtna rouyhisn, 

 not glutinous. 



11. CYPEIPEDIUM. Sepals in appearance generally only 2, and petals 2, besides 



the lip which is a large inflated sac, into the mouth of which the style, bear- 

 ing the stamens and terminated by the broad tenninal stigma, is declined. 

 Pollen sticky on the surface, as if with a delicate coat of varnish, powdery or 

 at length pulpy underneath. 



1. EPIDENDUM. (Name in Greek means upon a free, i. e. an epiphyte ) 

 E. COIl6pseum, our only wild Orcliideous Epiphyte or Air-plant, is found 



from South Carolina S. & W. on the boughs of Magnolia, &c., clinging to the 

 baric by its matted roots, its tuberous root'stocks bearing thick and firm lance- 

 olate leaves (l'-3'long), and scapes 2'-6' long, with a raceme of small greenish 

 and purplish ilowers, in summer. (Lessons, p. 34, 35, fig. 35.) 



2. ORCHIS. (The ancient name, from the Greek.) We have only one true 

 Orchis, viz. 



O. spectabilif9. Showy Prchis. Kich hilly w^oods N. ; with 2 ohlong 

 obovate glossy leaves (3'-5' long) from the fleshy-fibrous root, and a leafy- 

 bracted scape 4' -7' high, bearing in a loose spike a few pretty flowers, pink- 

 purple, the ovate lip white : in late spring. 



3. HABENAEIA, popularly called ORCHIS. (Kame from Latin hakna, 

 a rein or thong, from the shape of the lip of the corolla in some species.) 

 Flowers in a terminal spike, each in the axil of a bract, in late spring or sum- 

 mer. In all but one species the ovary twists and the lip occupies the lower or 

 anterior side of the flower. 



§ 1. Fkixged Orchis. Lip and often the other petals cut-fringed or cUJl, 

 shorter than the long curving spur : cells of the anther more or less diverging 

 and tapering bflow, the sticky gland at their lower end strongly projecting 

 foruxirds. These are our hanasomesi wild Orchises : all grow in bogs or low 

 grourids: stems leafy, l°-4° high. 



■m Flowers violet-purple, in summer: the lip fan-shaped, 3-parted nearly down to the 

 stalk-like base, and the divisions more or less /linqed. 



H. flmbri^ta, Larger Purple Fringed O. Wet meadows fromPenn. 

 K. E. : lower leaves oval or oblong, upper few and small ; raceme-like spike 

 oblong, with rather few large flowers in early summer; petals oblong, toothed 

 down the sides ; lip almost 1' wide, hanging, cut into a delicate fringe. 



