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bracts of the raceme often much longer than the flowers ; sepals and petals all 

 connlvent, forming a galea above the column ; lip pandurate, apex strongly 

 recurved, callosities minute, globular. (Includes Gyrostachys stncta Rydb.) — 

 Swamps and moist soil, Nfd. to Alaska, s. to Ct., N. Y., the Great Lake region, 

 S. D., Col., Utah, and Cal. July-Sept. (Ireland.) 



627. E. repens, 

 V. ophioidesxP/g. 



9. EPIPACTIS [Haller] Boehm. Rattlesnake Plantain 



Lip saccate, with a straight or recurved tip, sessile, entire, without callosities 

 at base. Upper sepal and the petals united into a hood over the lip. Anther 

 borne on the back of the short column ; pollen-masses 2, the narrow gland to 

 which they are attached held between the forked or 2-toothed beak which 

 terminates the column. — Root of thick fibres from a somewhat fleshy creeping 

 rootstock. Leaves all basal, dark gi-een, or reticulate-veined with white. Scape, 

 raceme, and the whitish flowers glandular-downy. (Ancient Greek name of 

 Helleborus.) Peramium Salisb. Goodyera, R. Br. 



* Baceme loosely flowered ; saccate lip with an elongated tip and flaring or 



recurved margin. 



+- Flowers in a 1-sided raceme ; anther short, blunt, or with a short blunt tip ; 

 beak shorter than the body of the stigma. 



1. E. ripens (L.) Crantz. Stem 1-2.5 dm. high; leaves ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, 5-nerved with subhorizontal dark veins ; 

 raceme about 4.5 cm. long ; perianth 4 mm. long ; lip strongly 

 saccate, inflated, with a recurved tip. (^Goodyera R. Br.) — 

 An old world species, represented in eastern N. A. by the follow- 

 ing variety. 



Var. ophioides (Fernald) A. A. Eaton. Generally a little 

 lower than the species ; veins of the leaves conspicuously bordered 

 with white. — Cold mossy woods, Nfd. to Man., s. to N. E., N. Y., 

 and Mich., and in the mts. to S. C. July, Aug. Fig. 627. 



■1- -1- Flowers mostly in a loose spiral ; anther acuminate ; beak as long as, or 

 longer than, the body of the stigma. 



2. E. tesselata (Lodd.) A. A. Eaton. Stem averaging 2 dm. high ; leaves 

 3-8 cm. long, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, extremely variable, faintly or some- 

 times conspicuously penciled with white ; raceme about 6 cm. 

 long; perianth 5 mm. long. (.Goodyera Lodd.) — In upland 

 coniferous woods, Nfd. to Ont., s. to N. E. and N. Y. July, Aug. 



* * Baceme rather densely flowered, 1-sided ; Up scarcely saccate, 

 elongated, with the margin involute. 



3. E. decipiens (Hook.) Ames. Stem stout, 3.5-4.5 dm. high ; 

 leaves 5-10 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, dark green, plain or partly 

 reticulate-veined -with white ; raceme about 10 cm. long ; peri- 

 anth 8-9 mm. long, anther ovate, long, acuminate ; slender beak 

 longer than the body of the stigma. — (Spiranthes Hook. ; Good- 

 yera Memiesii Lindl.) — Dry woods, e. Que. to B. C, s. to 

 N. S., N. B., n. Me., L. Huron, and Ariz, and Cal. July, Aug. 

 Fig. 628. 



* * * Baceme densely many-flowered ; lip strongly saccate, vrith 



a short blunt tip, the margin not recurved or flaring. 

 4. E. pubSscens (Willd.) A. A. Eaton. Stem stout, 1.5-4 

 dm. high ; leaves dark green, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-6.5 cm. 

 long with 5 or 7 white nerves and many fine white reticulating 

 veins; raceme about 7 (3-11) cm. long; perianth 4-5.5 mm. 

 lone ; lip globose, ventricose ; anther blunt ; stigma with 2 short 

 teeth. (Goodyera R. Br.) — Common ; generally in dry coniferous woods, rarer 

 in deciduous woods, N. E. to Fla. and Minn. Aug., Sept. Fig. 629. 



E. decipiens 

 X IV3. 



E. pubescens 

 xl%. 



