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++ ++ +4. Pollen-masses 4: iw stalks or Qlands. 



11. Illcros'tylls. Small herbs from solid bulbs ; the scape bearing a 



single leaf and a raceme of minute greenish flowers. Column 

 very small, terete, with 2 teeth at the top, ana the anther between 

 them. Petals thread-like or linear, spreading. 



12. LIp'aris. Small herbs from solid bulbs; the low scape bearing 2 



radical leaves and a raceme of a few greenish flowers. Column 

 elongated. Incurved, margined at the apex. Petals threadlike or 

 linear, spreading. Anther lid-like. 



IS. Corallorhl'za. Brownish or yellowish plants, with the small dull 

 flower's in spikes or scapes which are leafless or have mere sheaths 

 instead of leaves. Bootstocks branching and coral-like. Pcj'i- 

 atith gibbous or slightly spurred below. Lip with 2 ridges on the 

 inner part of the face. 



1 1. Aplec'trniii. Somewhat like the last, but the perianth is not gib- 

 bous below, and the rootstock, instead of being coral-like, is slen- 

 der, and produces each j'ear a solid bulb or corm. Lip with 3 

 ridges on the palate. Scape with 3 greenish sheaths below. 



* * Anthers 2, one on each side oftJie stigma, and a triangidar b<^dy. 

 which is the rudiment of a third, at the back of the stigma. Pollen 

 loose and powdery or pulpy. 



In. Cyprlpe'diam. Lip a large inflated sac. Into the mo\Miiot\i\aeh 



the style is declined. Sepals and the other petals much alike, the 



former apparently only 2, two of them being generally united into 



\ one under the lip. Leaves large, many-nerved. Flowers solitary 



or few. 



1. OKCHIS, L. Orchis. 



0. specta'bilis, L. (Showy Orchis.) Scape 4-angled, 

 4-7 inches high, bearing a, few flowers in a spike. The 

 arching upper lip piulc purple, the labellum white; each 

 flower in the axil of a leaf-like bract. 



2. HABENA'RIA, Willd., E. Br. EEiN-OnOHiS. 



1. H. tridenta'ta. Hook. Spike few-flowered, the flowers 

 very small, greenish-white. Lip wedge-shaped, truncctte and 

 3-loothed at the apex. Spur slender, longer than the ovary, 

 curved upwards. Stem less than a foot high, slender, with 

 one oblanceolate leaf bejow and 2 or 3 much smaller ones 

 above. — Wet woods. 



2. H. vires' eens, Spreng. stem 10-20 inches high. Spjke 

 of small, greenish-flowers 3,t first dense, with the bracts 

 longer than the flowers, at, length long and loose. Lip 



