446 OllCHIDACE^.. (OKCHIS FAMILY.) 



of t'lK crowded (ijellow) flowers ; spike oblong or cylindrical; petals rounded, cro- 

 nate ; tip ovate, with a lacerate-frinyed margin, scarcdij shorter than the slender ob- 

 tuse incurved spur, wliich is not half the length of the ovary. — Bogd, Penn. 

 (Piirs/ijto Virginia and soutliward. — Flowers one quarter the size of the next. 



10. P. ciliiiris, I^indl. (Yellow Feinged-Orchis.) Leaves oblong 

 or lanceolate ; the upper passing into pointed Jracfe, which arc shorter than the 

 long-beaJced ovaries ; spike oblong, rather closely many-flowered ; flowers bricjht 

 orange-yellow; lateral sepals rounded, refloxcd ; pet;ils linear, cut-fringed at the 

 apex ; lip oblong, about half the length of the spur, furnished with a I'en/ long and 

 copious capilhmj fringe. — Bogs and wet places; scarce at the North ; common 

 southward. July, Aug. — Our handsomest species, lJ°-2° higli, with a short 

 spike of veiy showy flowers ; tlie lip ^' long, the conspicuous fringe fully i' long 

 on each side. 



11. P. bli>pliarigl6ttis, Lindl. (White rBiNGED-OECHis.) Leaves, 

 &c. as in the last ; floicers white ; petals spatulate, slightly cut or toothed at the 

 apex ; lip oblong or lanceolate-oblong, with the iiTegular capillary fringe of the 

 margins usually shoi-tcr than the disk, one third the length of the spur. — Var. 

 iiOLOvi;TALA (P. liolopetala, Lindl.) has narrower petals with the toothing 

 obsolete, and the lip less fringed. — Peat-bogs and borders of ponds, with No. 

 10, or commonly taking its place in the North. July. — A foot liigh, the flow- 

 ers beautiful, but rather smaller than in the last. 



§ 5. Stem leafy : lip 3-parted, shorter than the somewhat club-shaped long spur, nar- 

 rowed at the base into a claw ; roots clustered and fleshy-thickened. 



* Flowei-s white or greenish. 



12. P. Ietlcopli%a, Nutt. (Westekn Okchis.) Leaves oblong-lan- 

 ciolate; the bracts similar, rather shorter than the (large dull white) flowers; 

 spike elongated, loose; petals obovate, minutely cut-toothed; divisions of the lip 

 broadly wedge-shaped or fun-shaped, many-cleft to the middle into a thread-like fringe ; 

 spur longer than the ovary. — Moist meadows, Central Ohio to Wisconsin and 

 southwestivard. July. — Stem 2° -4° high; the spike at length 1° long. Lip 

 about %' wide. 



13. P. Ificcra, Gray. (Ragged Orchis.) Leaves oblong or lanceo- 

 late; raceme loosely many-flowered : petals oblong-linear, entire; divisions of the 

 lip narrow, deeply parted into a few long nearly capillary lobes ; spur about the 

 length of tlie ovary. (0. psycodes, Muhl., &.Q., not of L. 0. lacera, Michx.) 

 — Bogs and moist thickets ; rather common. July. — Stem 1° - 2° high ; bracts 

 shorter or longer than the pale yellowish-green flowers. 



# * Flotvers purple. 



14. p. psycodes, Gray. (Small Purple Frinoed-Orciiis.)- Leaves 

 oblong, the uppermost passing into linear-lanceolate bracts ; raceme cylindrical, 

 densely many-flowered ; lower sepals round-oval, obtuse ; petals wedge-obovate or spat- 

 ulate, denticulate above; divisions of the spreading lip broadly wedge-shaped, 

 many-cleft into a short fringe. (0. psycodes, L. ! 0. fimbriata, Pursh, Bigelow. 

 O. incisa and 0. fissa, Muhl. in Willd.) — Moist meadows and alluvial banks; 

 common. July, Aug. — Stem 2° high. Flowers short-pedicelled, crowded in 



