232 Common Canadian wild plants. 



contracted in the middle^ wavy- crisped at the hlunt apex. 

 Stem nearly naked. Leaves oblong or lance-oblong.— Moist 

 banks. 



2. S. KomanZOVia'na, Chamisso. Spike dense, oblong 

 or cylindrical. Flowers pure white, in 3 ranks in the spike. 

 Lip ovate-oblong, contracted below the wavy recurved apex. 

 Sepals and petals all connivent above. Beak of the stigma 2- 

 homed, short. Stem 5-15 inches high, leafy below, leafy- 

 bracted above ; the leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear. — Cool 

 bogs. 



3. S. eer'nua, Eichard. Eesembliag the last, but the 

 lower sepals are not upturned or connivent with the upper. 

 Margins of the lower lip much incurved. Gland of the 

 stigma linear, in a long and slender beak. — Wet places. 



4. S. grac'iliS, ISgelow. FJoweri in a single spirally- 

 twisted rank at the summit of the very slender scape. Leaves' 

 with blades all in a cluster at the base, ovate or oblong. 

 Scape 8-18 inches high. — Sandy plains and pine barrens. 



4. GOODTK'RA, R. Br. EArrLE-SNAKE Plantain. 



1. G. repens, E. Br. .Flowers in a loose 1-sided spike. 

 Lip with a recurved tip. Scape 5-8 inches high. Leaves 

 thiokish, petioled, intersected with whitish veins. — Woods, 

 usually under evergreens. 



2. G. pubes'eens, E. Br. Spike not 1-sided. Plant rather 

 larger fcan the last, and the leaves more strongly white- 

 veined. — Eich woods. 



3. G. Menzies'ii, Lindl., is found in the north-western 

 part of Ontario. The leaves are less white-veiny than the 

 (preceding, and the column is continued above the stigma into 

 a conspicous awl-shaped beak. The lip, also, is hardly, if at 

 all, saccate below. 



.5. EPIPAC'TIS, Haller. , 



E. HellebOPi'ne, Crantz. Near Toronto, on the bank of 

 the Humber, and at Montreal. 



