OECHIDACE^. (orchis FAMILY.) 507 



1. A. bulbbsa, L. Flower single, erect, with an entire lip recurved at the 

 apex and bearded-crested down the face. — Bogs, Virginia to Maine, N. Wis- 

 consin, and northward: rather scarce or local. May. — Flower l'-2' long, very 

 handsome, bright rose-purple ; very rarely a pair of flowers. 



7. POGONIA, Juss. PoGONiA. 



Flower irregular, the sepals and petals separate. Lip crested or 3-lobed. 

 Column free, elongated, club-shaped, wingless. Anther terminal and lid-like, 

 stalked : pollen-masses 2 (one in each cell), powdery-granular. {Ilayavias, 

 bearded, from the lip of some of the original species. ) 



§ 1 . Sf-pals and petals nearly equal and alike, pale rose-color, sometimes white. 



1. P. ophioglossoides, Nutt. Root of thick fibres ; stem (t)'-9'high) 

 bearing a single oval or lance-oblong leaf near the middle and a smaller one or 

 bract near the terminal flower, rarely one or two others with a flower in their 

 axil ; lip spatulate below, appressed to the column, beard-crested and fringed. — 

 In bogs. June, July. — Flower 1' long, sweet-scented. — An interesting mon- 

 ster of this, with two additional lips, and some other petaloid parts, was found in 

 Herkimer Co., New York, by J. A. Paine. 



2. P. p6ndula, Lindl. Stem (3' -8' high) from oblong tubers, bearing 3 

 to 7 alternate ovate-clasping very small (3" -6") leaves, the upper 1-4 with 

 drooping flowers in their axils on slender pedicels ; lip spatulate, somewhat 3- 

 lobed, roughish or crisped above, crestless. (Triphor'a pendula, Nutt.) — Damp 

 woods : rather scarce. Aug. — Perianth J' long, narrow. 



§ 2. Sepals linear, dingy or brownish, longer and much narrower than the erect or con- 

 nioent petals : lip 3-lobed at the apex, crested down the middle, beardless : flowers 

 solitary [or rarely a pair), terminal: root a cluster of fibres. 



3. P. divarieita, R.Br. Stem (10-2° high) bearinga/anceotocfca/w^Ae 

 middle, and a leafy bract next the flower, which is recurved on the ovary ; but the 

 sepals ascending or diverging, spatulate-linear, longer than the lanceolate-spat- " 

 ulate pointed and flesh-colored petals, these about I'-lJ' long. — Wet pine- 

 barrens, Quaker Bridge, New Jersey ( fV. H. Leggett), Virginia, and southward. 

 June, July. 



4. P. verticillMa, Nutt. Stem (6' -12' high), naked, except some small 

 scales at the base, and a whorl of mostly 5 obovate or obovate-oblong sessile leaves at 

 the summit; flower dusky purplish, on a, peduncle longer than the ovary and pod; 

 sepals more than twice the length of the petals, narrowly linear, spreading from a 

 mostly erect base (lJ'-2' long) ; lip with a narrow crest down the middle. — 

 Low woods : rather rare, especially eastward. May, June. — Glaucous when 

 young. Stalk of pod about 1 J' long, more than half the length of the leaves. 



5. P. affiuis, C. F. Austin, n. sp. Somewhat smaller than the preceding ; 

 leaves paler and rather narrower; flowers (not rarely in pairs) yellowish or 

 greenish; peduncle much shorter than the ovary and pod; sepals not twice the length 

 of the petals, tapering to the base; lip crested over the whole face and on the 

 middle of the lobes. — With the last, which it nearly resembles, but is much 

 rarer. Southern New York and Northern New Jersey, C. F. Austin ; and 

 Connecticut, near New Haven, Edward Dana. 



