452 OECHIDACE^. (OKCUIS FAMILY.) 



tliem. Pollen-masses 4, in one row (2 in each cell), cohering by pairs at the 

 apex, waxy, without any stalks or elastic connecting tissue. — Little herbs from 

 solid bulbs, producing simple stems or scapes, which bear 1 or 2 leaves, and a 

 raceme of minute greenish flowers. (Name composed olfUKpos, little, and orvXi't, 

 a column ot style.) 



1. M. monopbyllos, Lindl. Slender (4' -6' high); leaf solitary, 

 sheathing tlie base of the stem, ovate-eUiptical ; raceme spiked, long and slender ; 

 pedicels not longer than the flowers; lip triangular-halberd-shaped, long-pointed. — 

 Cold wet swamps, N. New England to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and northward. 

 July. (Eu.) 



2. M. OpIliog:loSSOides, Nutt. Leaf solitary near the middle of the 

 stem, ovate, clasping ; raceme short and obtuse ; pedicels much longer than the flow- 

 ei-s; lip obtusely auricled at the base, 3-toothed at the summit. — Damp woods ; 

 more common southward. — Plant 4' - 10' high. July. 



14. I^iPARIS, Richard. Twatblade. 



Sepals and petals nearly equal, linear, or the latter thread-like, spreading. 

 Lip flat, entire, often bearing 2 tubercles above the base. Cojumn elongated, 

 incurved, margined at the apex. Anther, &c. as in the last. — Small herbs, with 

 solid bulbs, producing 2 root-leaves and a low scape, which bears a raceme of few 

 pm'plish or greenish flowers. (Name from \ii!ap6s,fat or shining, in allusion to 

 the smooth or unctuous leaves.) 



1. Li. liliifdlia, Richard. Leaves 2, ovate; petals thread-like, reflexed ; 

 lip large (J' long), wedge-obovate, abruptly shmi-pointed, brown-purplish. (Malaxis 

 liliifolia, Swartz.) — Moist woodlands : commonest in the Middle States. Jime. 



2. li. Liceselil, Richard. Leaves 2, elliptical-lanceolate or oblong, sharp- 

 ly keeled ; lip obovate or oblong (2" long), mucronate at the incurved tip, yeliow- 

 ish-green, shorter than the linear unequal petals and sepah. (Malaxis Con'eana, 

 Barton.) — Bogs and wet meadows. New England to Penn., Wiscon.sin, and 

 northward : rare. June. (Eu. ) 



15. COBALLORHIZA, Haller. Coeal-root. 



Flower ringent ; the oblong or lanceolate sepals and petals nearly alike, the 

 lateral ascending and the upper arching : lip spreading above, with 2 projecting 

 ridges or lamollEe on the face below, slightly adherent at the base to the 2-edged 

 straightisli column, and often more or less extended into a protuberance or short 

 spur coalescent with the summit of the ovary. Anther 2-lipped, terminal and 

 lid-like. Pollen-masses 4, obliquely incumbent, soft-waxy or powdery, free. — 

 Brownish or yellowish herbs, destitute of green foliage, with much-branched 

 and toothed coral-like root-stocks (probably root-parasitical), sending up a sim- 

 j)le scape, furnished with sheaths in place of leaves, and bearing small and dull- 

 colored flowers in a spiked raceme. (Name composed of KopaXXioy, coral, and 

 joi'fa, root.) 



* Lip 3-lobed [the viiddh lobe very much largest) and with 2 distinct lamellce or plaited 

 ridges on the face, whitish, usually spotted or mottled with crimson. 



