500 GYNANDRIA MONANDIUA 



a. Anther parallel -with the stigma, and erect. 



398. GOODYERA. Br. Nutt. Gen. 708. 

 [Named after Mm Goody er ; an English Botanist.] 

 Perianth ringent ; the outer segments herbaceous,— the upper one 

 vaulted, the 2 lateral ones placed beneath the saccate entire Up. Col- 

 umn free. Pollen angular. Stigma prominent, roundish. 

 1. G. pubrscf.xs, Br. Radical leaves ovate, reticulate, petiolate; 

 wane, with ite flowers, and sheathing scales, pubescent ; outer lateral 

 segments of the perianth ovate; lip loundish-ovatc, acuminate. Beck, 



Bot. p. 343. 



Satyrium repens. JMx. Jim. 2. p. 157. 



Neottia pubescens. Willd. Sp. 4. p. 76. Per*. Syn. 2. p. 611. Muhl. 



Catal. p. 80. Pursh, Am. 2. p. 590. Big el. Bust. p. 323. 



Pubescknt Goodtkua. Yulgo— Rattlesnake Plantain. 



Root perennial, coarsely fibrous, and somewhat creeping. Leaves radical, I to 

 * inches long, and 3 fourths o( an inch to an inch and quarter wide, somewhat 

 inclining to°spatulato-ova.c, acute, mostly 5-nervcd, smooth, the upper surface 

 dark green, whitish along the midrib and nerves, reticulated with broad bluish- 

 white veins, and minutely punctate, tapering at base to a flat/^i'o/* about an inch 

 long. Scape 6 to 12 or 15 inches high, terete, pubescent, bearing a few scattered 

 lanceolate acuminate sheathing scale like ieaves. Flowers rather small, and 

 somewhat crowded in an oblong terminal bracteatc spike 2 to 4 inches in length; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent and ciliate, a little longer than tht 

 ovaries. Perianth greenish-white, ringent,-the outer and upper segment lance- 

 ovate, vaulted, cohering with the two lateral inner ones,— the lateral outer seg- 

 ments orbicular-ovate, concave, with a short abrupt acumination ; lip orbicular. 

 ovate, saccate, or gibbous beneath, abruptly acuminate, entire. Capsule oblong- 

 ovoid, or elliptic, pubescent. 

 Hab. Woodlands, and shady thickets : frequent. Fl. July. FY. Sept-Octo. 



Obs. There is one other species, nearly allied to this, which is common to Eu- 

 rope and the Northern parts of this Continent, including New England. 



399. SPIRANTHES. Rich. LiudL Ency. p. 749. 

 [Gr. Spcira, a cord ; the (lowers being spiral like the strands of a rope.] 



Spike spiral : Perianth with the inner segments connivent; Up paraU 



the odd one, called the lip, is undermost, of a different form from the others, fre- 

 quently lobed, or fringed, and very often spurred at base ; stamens 3, united in a 

 central column, the 2 lateral ones usually abortive (reducing the plant to the arti- 

 ficial Order, Monandria)> or sometimes the central one abortive a:.d the lateral 

 ones perfect (artificial Order, Diawfria) ; anther persistent, or deciduous, 2- 4- or 

 • celled ; pollen either powdery, or cohering in definite, or indefinite, waxy masses 

 (pollinia), which either adhere constantly to a gland, or become loose in their 

 cells; ovary inferior; style forming part of the column of the stamens; stigma 

 a viscid concave space in front, and near the summit, of the column ; fruit mostly 

 a capsule, 1-celled, with 3 flat longitudinal ribs, and opening with 3 intermediate 

 valves which are keeled (rendering the immature capsule apparently 6-ribbed), 

 and fitted to the inner edges of the ribs as in a frame,— all permanently united at 

 base and apex ; seeds parietal, adhering to the placental suture in the middle of 

 each valve, numerous, often resembling fine saw-dust,— the tola loose andarillui- 

 Hke, reticulated, mostly contracted at each end. 



