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H. psyc6des, Smaller Purple Fringed 0. Common, especially 

 N. ; leaves oblong, above passing into lance-linear bracts ; spike cylindiical, 

 4' -10' long, crowded with smaller and fragrant flowers; lateral petals wedge- 

 obovate, almost entire ; lip spreading, only ^' wide, cut into denser fringe. 



H. peramOSIia. From Penn. W. & 8. along and near the mountains; 

 flowers of size intermediate between the two preceding, the broad wedge-shaped 

 lobes of the lip moderately cut-toothed, but not fringed. 



* * Flowers greenish or yellowish-while, in late summer : glands oval or lanceolate, 



almost facing each other : spike long and loose. 



H. leucoph&a. From Ohio W. & S. : 2° -4° high; leaves lance-oblong ; 

 flowers rather large, the fan-shaped lip 3-partcd, |' long, and niany-cleft to the 

 middle into a thread-like fringe. 



H. lAcera, Ragged Fringed 0. Common N.&E,; l°-2°high; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong ; petals oblong-linear, entire ; divisions of the slenderTStalked 

 3-parted lip narrow and slenderly fringed. 



* * * Flowers bright white, in summer: the lip fringe-margined but not cleft. 



H. blepharigl6ttis, White Fkinged 0. Peat-bogs N. : like the next, 

 but rather smaller, 1° high, the fringe of the lance-oblong lip hardly equal to 

 the width of its body. 



* * * * Fhwers bright orange-yellow, in late summer : glands orbicular, projecting 



on the beak-pointed bases of the very diverging anther-cells : ovary and pod 

 long, tapering to the summit. 



H. eili^ris. Yellow Fringed O. Sandy bogs: lp-2° high; leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate ; spike short, of many crowded very showy flowers ; petals 

 cat-fringed at apex, the oblong body of the lip narrower than the copious long 

 and fine fringe. 



H. crist&ta, fi:om Penn. S. : smaller, with narrower leaves, and flowers 

 only a quarter the size of the preceding, the petals crenate, and the ovate lip 

 with a narrow lacerate fringe. 



§ 2. Yellow, green, or white species, with lip entire, at least not fringed. 

 « Stem leafy: leaves oblong or lanceolate : flowers small; anther-cells nearly parallel. 



H. Integra. Pine barrens from New Jersey S. : resembles H. cristata, 

 having small bright orange-yellow flowers, but the lip is ovate and entire or 

 barely crenulate. 



H. vir6sQenS. Wet grounds, common: 10'-2O' high, with a conspicu- 

 ously bracted at length long and loose spike of small duU-green flowers ; the 

 lip oblong, almost truncate at the apex, its base with a tooth on each side and 

 a nasal protuberance on the face ; spur slender, club-shaped. 



H. vlridis, var. taraete&,ta. Cold damp woods N. : 6'- 12' high, with 

 lower leaves obovate, upper reduced to bracts of the short spike, which are much 

 longer than the green flowers; lip truncate and 2-3-toothed at the tip, very 

 much longer than the sac-shaped spur. • 



H. hyperbdrea. Cold low woods and bogs N : 6'- 2° high, very leafy; 

 leaves lanceolate ; spike dense, often long ; flowers greenish, the lanceolate lip 

 like the other petals, spreading, entire, about the length of the incurved spur. 



H. dilat&ta. Resembles the last, grows in same places, but commonly more 

 slender and with linear leaves ; flowers white, less wide, open, the lanceolate 

 lip with a rhombic-dilated base ; glands strap-shaped. 



H. nivea. Sandy bogs, from IJelaware S. : l°-2° higb, all the upper 

 leaves bract-like ; flowers white, in a loose cyllndricar spike, very small, different 

 from all the rest in having the (white') ovary without a twist, and the linear- 

 oblong entire lip with its long thread-like spur therefore looking inwards. 



* * Stem a naked scape: the leaves only 2 at the ground: flowers pretty large in 



a loose spike : anther-cells widely diverging at their tapering or beak-iike 



projecting base. 



H. orbiculita, Great Gkees 0. Evergreen "woods and hillsides N. : a 



striking plant; its exactly orbicular leaves 4' -8' wide, bright green above and 



silvery beneath, lying flat on the ground ; scape 1 ° - 2° high, bracted, bearing 



many large greenish- white flowers in a loose raceme; sepals roundish ; lip nar- 



