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Small Purple Fringed Orchid. Hahenm-ia ])8ycodes. 



Found by roadside springs, or in low damp meadows, during July 

 and August. 



The stalk is sparingly leafy, round and smooth, and varies in 

 height from 1 to 3 feet ; light green in color. 



The long leaf is sharp-pointed at the tip, thin but tough in texture, 

 and smooth ; in color yellow-green, not dark. The leaves are few in 

 number, clasping, and near the top somewhat sheath-like ; they are 

 placed alternately. 



The flower is small ; the lip fan-shaped, 3-cleft, and fringed ; the 

 other petals erect and fringy ; the slender spur is curving, and longer 

 than the foot-stem ; the calyx-parts are small and rounded, one being 

 erect and the two others spreading at the sides. The texture is fine, 

 and the color is a clear light lilac, the spur being purplish-green. The 

 curious little foot-stem looks like a rolled leaf ; it is green, or slightly 

 tinted pink. The flowers are placed in a terminal spire, springing from 

 the angles of small pale green leaves (bracts). 



Green at first, the lilac flush, overspreads the buds as they swell 

 before the blossoms expand. It is an odorous flower, and fortunately 

 not uncommon. The spur is more curving than that of the Large 

 Purple Fringed, and the whole plant is more slender and less perfect in 

 its details, yet it is sufficiently like its early sister to be taken for a 

 belated specimen of the fimhriata when • first espied amongst the tall 

 grasses. 



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