384 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



65. Richweed. Clearweed 



P'llea pumila is a smooth, low nettle, 3 to 18 inches high, 

 without stinging hairs. Leaves, pointed, 3 -ribbed, coarsely 

 toothed. Flowers, of 2 kinds. Corolla, wanting. Sepals, 3, 

 one large, enclosing the achene in fruit. Stigma, sessile, end- 

 ing in a tuft of fine hairs. Staminate and pistillate flowers 

 together or on separate plants. 



66. Large Twayblade 



Leptorchis or Liparis liliifolia. — Family, Orchid. Color 

 of lip, purplish. Leaves, 2 at the base of the flower scape, 

 broad, 2 to 5 inches long, expanding into large, loose sheath- 

 ing bases. Several scales also below on the flower scape. 

 Time, May to July. 



Sepals and petals, narrow, slightly turned back. Up, large, 

 standing out from the flower, nearly \ inch long. Flowers in 

 racemes on ascending pedicels, ending the scape which grows 

 from a solid bulb. 



A low plant, 3 to 10 inches high, found in rich, moist woods from 

 Maine to Georgia, and westward. 



67. Loesel's Twayblade 



L. Loeshlii has fewer and smaller flowers on the scape, which 

 grows, like the preceding, from a bulb. Flowers, greenish, 

 with the lip pointed in the middle. Leaves, more inclined to 

 lance-shape, 2 in number, sheathing the base of the flower 

 scape. 



This requires rather wet soil, and is found, not common, from 

 New England to Florida. 



68. Putty-root. Adam-and-Eve 



Aplectrum hiemale or spicatum. — Family, Orchid. Color, 

 yellowish brown and purplish. Leaf, i, stalked, not sheath- 



