270 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
GOODYERA TESSELLATA. 
ONE of the most interesting Orchids of the eastern United States is 
Goodyera tessellata, Lodd. It is found in upland woods, usually under the 
shade of pine forests, differing from G. pubescens, R.Br., its near ally, in 
its method of growth. It is not found in patches like G. pubescens, but 
isolated, each plant being a hundred feet or more distant from its nearest 
neighbours. It is interesting for its leaves, which exhibit a range of 
variation most remarkable ; some being less than one inch, while others 
exceed two inches in length; some are broadly ovate, others narrowly 
lanceolate ; some are distinctly reticulate-veined, while others show every — 
conceivable kind of nervation until plain green is reached. The scapes are 
also variable, not only in the number of flowers they support, but in length, 
some exceeding eleven inches, while others are considerably shorter than 
four inches, and on plants growing under similar and favourable 
conditions. : 
This species, which has been well worked out and freed from the 
confusion in which it recently existed (Fernald in Rhodora, i., pp. 2—7, t- 0), 
is a difficult subject to handle under cultivation, and rarely lives longer 
than two years when introduced: to gardens. The cause of this cannot at 
Present be stated with certainty, and yet the very fact that the plants 
refuse to grow, if only moved a few hundred yards from their native habitat, 
is significant. In every instance where I have examined this plant in - 
gardens it has been firmly placed in garden soil. This is undoubtedly an 
opposite method to that apparently required, for the plant, under natural 
conditions, grows with its Toots among pine needles, except in rare cases 
when it has been reported growing in deep moss. If G. tessellata could be 
eries or in the open ground, under the 
g its culture. Its blossoms make 4 
very good appearance when they open in late July and early August. 
pubescens, and, being born in loose 
spikes, are much more attractive, 
G. tessellata was published by Loddiges in 1824 (Bot. Cab., t. 952), and 
shortly afterwards described by Sims as G. pubescens var. minor (Bol. 
Mag., t. 2540), but neither of these names has been in general use among 
botanists in the United States. At the exhibitions of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, the collections of native plants usually contained 
specimens of an ambiguous Goodyera species, which some persons called 
G. repens, others G, Menziesii, although nobody was absolutely certain 
as to which the plant might really be. This confusion arose from the 
