OECHIDACE^. (orchis FAMILT.) 503 



(0. psycodes, L. ! O. fimbriata, Pursh, Bigetow. O. incisa and 0. fissa, MM. 

 in Wilid. Platan thera fimbriata, Ztnd/.) — Wet meadows and bogs: common. 

 July, Aug. — Flowers short-pedioelled, crowded in a spike of 4' -10' in length, 

 small, but very handsome, fragrant; lip short-stalked, barely J' broad and not 

 80 long ; the middle lobe broadest and more closely fringed, but not so deeply 

 cleft as the lateral ones. 



17. H. fimbriata, R. Br. Lower leaves oval or oblong, the upper few, 

 passing into lanceolate bracts; spike or raceme Mmg, loosely-flowered ; lower sep- 

 als ovate, acute; petals oblong, toothed down the sides; divisions of the pendent 

 large lip fan-shaped, more fringed. (0. fimbriata. Ait., Wllld., Hook. Exot. 

 Fl. &c. 0. grandiflora, Bigelow.) — Wet meadows, New England to Fenn. 

 and (chiefly) northeastward. June. — Flowers fewer, paler (or lilac-purple), 

 and 3 or 4 times larger than those of the preceding ; the more ample dilated 

 lip I' to 1' broad, with a deeper and almost capillary crowded fringe, different- 

 shaped petals, &c. 



18. H. peramosna. Gray. Lower leaves oblong-ovate, the upper lanceo- 

 late ; spike oblong or cylindrical, densely flowered ; lower sepals round-ovate ; 

 petals rounded-obovate, raised on a claw ; divisions of the large lip very broadly 

 wedge-shaped, irregularly eroded-toothed at the broadly dilated summit, tlie lateral 

 ones truncate, the middle one2-lobed. (Platanthera peramoena, Ed. 2. P. fissa, 

 Lindl. O. fissa, Pursh, not of Muhl.) — Moist meadows and banks, Penn. to 

 Illinois, and southward along the Alleghanies. Aug. — Flowers large and 

 showy, violet-purple; the lip paler and very ample, 8" -10" long: its divisions 

 minutely and variably toothed, or sparingly cut along the terminal edge, but 

 not fringed. 



3. GOQSY^IIA, E.Br. Rattlesnake-Plantain. 



Lip sac-shaped, sessile, entire, and without callosities at the base. Otherwise 

 as Spiranthes. — Root of thick fibres, from a somewhat fleshy creeping rootstock, 

 bearing a tuft of thickish petioled leaves, usually reticulated with white veining. 

 Scape, spike, and the greenish-white small flowers usually glandular-downy. 

 (Dedicated to John Goodyer, an early English botanist ) 

 § 1. Lip strongly saccate-inflated and with a short spreading or recurved tip : anther 



short, borne on a distinct fllament attacked to the back of the short column. Hunt: 



gland-bearing tip or beak of the stigma very short. 



1. G. ripens, R. Br. Small (5'-8' high) and slender; leaves ovate, 

 more or less white-reticulated (about 1' long) ; flowers several, in a loose 1-sided 

 spike ; lip with an ovate recurved tip ; sepals ovate. — Woods, under evergreens : 

 common northward and through the Alleghanies. Aug. (Eu. ) 



2. G. pub^SCens, R. Br. Larger; leaves strongly white-reticulated; 

 scape 6' - 12' high ; the numerous crowded flowers not one-sided; tip of the globular 

 lip very short • otherwise like the preceding, and too near it. — Rich woods, east- 

 ward and southward. July, Aug. 



§ 2. Lip barely saccate below, tapering and its sides involute above : anther ovate and 

 long-pointed, borne on the base of the very gbort proper column, which is continued 

 above the stigma into a conspicuous long tapering awl-shaped gland-bearing beak. 



