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an oval or lance-oblong closely sessile leaf near the middle, and a smaller one or 

 bract near the terminal flower, sometimes a second flower in its axil ; flower 1' 

 long, pale rose-color or whitish, sweet-scented; sepals and petals nearly aUke; 

 Up erect, beard-crested and fringed. 



9. CORALLOBHIZA, COKAL-EOOT (which the name means in 

 Greek). 



C. inn^ta. Low woods,- mostly N. : 3'-6' high, yellowish, with 5-10 very 

 small almost sessile flowers ; lip 3-lobcd or halberd-shaped at base : fl. spring. 



C. odontorhiza. Kich woods, common only S. : 6' - 16' high, thickened 

 at base, brownish or purplish, with 6-20 pedicelled flpw.ers, and lip not lobed 

 but rather stalked at base, the. spur obsolete. 



C. multifl.6ra. Ooniraon in dry woods, 9' -20' high, purplish, stout, with 

 10-30 short-pedicelled flowers, lip deeply 3-lobed, and adnate spur manifest. 



10. APLECTRUM, PXJTTY-ROOT, ADAM-AND-EVE, (Name, 

 from the Greek, means destitute of spur.) 



A. hyemale. Woods, in rich mould, mostly towards the Alleghanies and 

 N. : scape and (fingy flowers in early summer ; the large oval and plaited-nerved 

 pctioled leaf appears towards autumn and lasts over winteV ; solid bulbs one 

 each year, connected by a slender stalk, those of at least two years found to- 

 gether (whence one of the popular names), I' thick, filled with strong glutinous 

 matter, which has been used for cement, whence the other name. 



U. CTPEIPEDIUM, -LADY'S SLIPPER, MOCCASON-FLOWEE. 

 (Greek n.tme for Venits, joined to that for a slipper or buskin.) Two exotic 

 species are not rare in conservatories ; the others are among the most orna- 

 mental and curious of our wild flowers : in spring and early summer. Root- 

 stocks very short and knotty, producing long and coarse fibrous roots. 



§1. The three sepals separate: stem leafy, one-flowered. 

 C. arietinum, Ram's head C. Cold bogs N. : not common ; the smallest 

 species, with slender stem 6' — 10' high, oblong-lanceolate leaves, and a dingy 

 purplish flower, the sac conical and in some positions resembling a ram's head, 

 one sepal lance-ovate, the two others and the two petals linear. 



§ 2. Two of the sepals united by their edges into one under the sac or slipper, but 

 their very tif/s sometimes separate. 



* Stem l°-2° high, leafy to the 1-3-flowered summit: leaves lance-ohlong or 

 ovate, with many somewhat plaited nerves, more or less pubescent: sac or 

 slipper horizontal, much inflated, open by a rather large round oriflce. 



1- Sepals and linear wavy-twisted petals, brownish, pointed, larger than the sac. 



C. pub6scens, Yellow Ladv's-Slippek. Low woods and bogs^ maiiily 

 N. : sac light yellow, higher than broad, convex above ; sepals long-lanceolate : 

 flowers early summer, scentless. 



C. parvifldrum, Smaller Yellow L. In similar situations ; stems and 

 leaves generally smaller, and flower about half the size of the other, somewhat 

 fragrant, the sac broader than high, deep yellow, and the lance-ovate sepals 

 browner. 



C. ctedidum, Small White L. Bogs and low prairies, chiefly W. : 

 small, barely 1° high, slightly pubescent ; sac.like that of preceding biit white. 

 ■^ *- Sepals and petals broad or roundish and flat, white, not larger than the sac. 



C. speet^bile, Showy L., and deserving the name, in bogs and rich low 

 woods N., and along the mountains S. : downy, 2° "or more high, with leaves 

 6'- 8' long, white flowers with the globular lip (1^'long) painted with pink- 

 pnrple, in July. 



* » Scape naked, bearing a small bract and one flower at summit. 

 ■*- Wild species, with only a pair of oblong many-nerved dovmy leaves at the root. 

 C. ae&ule, Stemless L. Moist or sandy ground in the shade of ever- 

 greens : scape 8 - 12' high ; sepals and petals greenish or purplish, the latter 



