510 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



acute, the inner lateral ones linear-oblong, obtuse; lip slender, 3-partcd,-tfnr 

 lateral lobes capillaceously divided nearly to the base, tho middle lobe cuncate, 

 filiform at base, capillaceously fringed at apex ; spur about as long as the slender 

 ■eesilo ovary, filiform-clavate, rather acute at apex. 

 Nab. Moist woodlands, and thickets: not very common. Fl. June— July. Fr. 



Obs. This is not a showy species. Some 15 or 18 additional ones are enumer- 

 ated in the U. States. 



§ III. Pollen cohering in waxy masses which arc definite in 

 number. Anther mostly terminal, deciduous. 



407. CORALLORHIZA. Nailer. JVutt. Gen. 720. 

 [Greek, Korallion, Coral, and Rhiza, a root ; from its coral like roots'. 



Perianth with the segments distinct, nearly equal, mostly comment. 

 Lip produced at base on the under side; the spur short and adnate to 

 the ovary. Column free. Pollinia 4, oblique (not parallel), sub-len^ 

 ticular. Plants leafless ; root coral-like; scape sheathed ; flower* 

 in a terminal raceme* 



1. C. verna, J\*utt. Lip oblong, without spots, bidentate at base, 

 the apex recurved and ovate; spur obsolete, adnate; capsule elliptic- 

 obovoid. Beck, Bot. p. 345. Icox, Journ. Acad. JVat. Sc % Philad, 

 3. tab. 7. 

 Verbal Coualloiiiiiza. 



Root perennial, coraloid, or branching with tooth-like processes. Leaves none. 

 Scape 6 to 12 inches high, embraced by 3 or 4 membranous sheaths, smooth, 

 tawny, inclining to dark purple above. Placers rather small, mostly few (5 to 10" 

 or l£) and distant, in a terminal raceme; bracts very small, acute. Segments of 

 ihc perianth of a dingy purple, lance-linear, the outer ones spreading; lip nearly 

 white, mostly without spots, oblong-oval, with 2 ridges on the palate, and a small' 

 incised toolh on each margin near the base ; spur nearly obsolete, adnate to the 

 pedicellate ovary. Capsule obovoid-oblong, finally reflexed. 



JTab. Rich, moist woodlands : not very common. Fl. May. Fr. 



Obs. Collected at Black Rock, by D. Townsend, Esq. in 1831 ; and subsequently 

 in East Goshen, by Mr. George W. Hall. 



2.- C. odoxtohhiza, J\ m utt. Lip oval, or obovate , crennlate, spotted; 

 spur obsolete, adnate ; capsule subglobosc. Beck, Bot. p. 345, 

 Ophrys corallorhiza. JMx. Am. 2. p. 158. 



Cymbidium odontorhizon. Willd. Sp. 4. /;. 110. Pere. Syn.2.p.> 

 517. Muhl ? Catal. /i. 81. Pursh, Am. 2. p. 593. 



TooTW-nooTRD Coralloiuiiza. Vulgo — Coral-rodt. 



Root perennial, coraloid. Leaves none. Scape 4 to 8 or 10 inches high, rather 

 srender, embraced by 2 or 3 membranous sheaths, smooth, tawny. Flowers 10 to 

 13, small, somewhat pendulous, in a terminal raceme ; bracts very small, subulate. 

 Segments of the perianth brownish, or purplish lawny, lanceolate, connivent 

 lip dilated, obovate, obtuse, crenulate, white, spoltod with purple ; spur obsolete. 

 Capsule subglobosc, or roundish-oval, smooth, rather small, nodding on a short 

 pedicel. 



Hab. Woodlands, abeut roots of trees: frequent, Fl. August— Sept. Fr. Octo. 



