GYNANDR1A MONANDRIA 31* 



tz*C* MUtriFtoRA, JVW& Scape many-flowered; lip spotted, curie-* 

 tc-oval, trifid, the middle lobe broad, recurved, the lateral lobes short 

 ltd tooth-like; spur conspicuous, adnate; capsule elliptic-obovoid. 



Bech Bot. pi 345. Icon, Joum. Acad. JSTat. Sc. Philad. 3. tab. 7. 



CJ. innate. ' Jfttft. Gen. 2. p. 197. Bart. Phil. 2. p. 143. Ell. Sk. 



2. p. 504. Not of Br. 



MaXY-FLOWBRBD CORALLOIIHIZA. 



Root perennial, coraloid. Leaves none. Scape 9 to 15 inches high, rather 

 •tout embraced by 2 or 3 membranous oblong sheaths, smooth, purplish tawny. 

 Flowers larger than in either of the preceding, and more numerous (15 to 30), in 

 t terminal raceme ; bracts small, often broad and \ery obtuse. Segments of the 

 nerianth purplish brown, connivent, the outcrones linear-lanceolate, rather 

 obtuse; lip whitish, tinged with purple,' and spotted, cuneate-oval, trifid, or with 

 a small tooth-like 1 >be on each side ; spur rather conspicuous, tawny, adnate to' 

 the ovary. Capsule elliptic-obovoid, rather large, smooth, pedicellate, reflexed. 

 llab. Woodlands, about roots of trees: frequent. FL July— Sept. Fr. Octo. 



Obs. Collected in 1829, by Mr. Geo. W. Hall. There are no other speciea 

 known in the U. States. 



408. APLECTRUM. JStutt* Gen. 2. p. 197. 

 [Greek, a, privative, and Plektron, a spur; the lip not being spurred.] 



Perianth with the segments distinct, nearly equal, connivent. Up 

 unguiculate, not produced at base. Column free ; anther situated a 

 little below the summit. Pollinia 4, oblique, lenticular. 



1. A. HYF..VALE, J\*utt. Leaf solitary, radical, petiolate, elliptic, strI- A 



ate-nerved ; lip obtuse, 3-lobcd, the central lobe rounded, crenulate, the 



palate ridged. Beck, Bot. p. 346. 



Cymbidium hyemale. fVilld. Sp. 4. p. 107. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 516.- 



Stuhl Ca'tal. p. 81. Pursh, Jim. 2. p. 593. 



Corallorhiza hyemalis. Bart. Phil. 2. p. 144. Ell. Sk. 2. p. 505. 



Bart. Jim. 2. p. 46 (Icox, tab. 52.). Florul. Cestr. p. 95. 



Winter Aplectbum. Vulgo — Adam & Eve. Putty-root 



Root perennial, coarsely fibrous, bearing subglobose tubers half an inch to an 

 inch or more in diameter, which are propagated laterally and are generally found 

 in pairs (sometimes 4 or 5), connected by a coarse fleshy horizontal fibre. Leaf 

 solitary (in pairs, Will J. Pursh), 3 to 6 inches long, and an inch and half to *• 

 iriches wide, elliptic, or lance-oval, acute at each end, sub-plicate, striate with 

 numsrous whitish nerves (which converge at each end like those of Vcratrum 

 viridc), smooth; petiole 2 to 3 inches long, inserted on the tuber a little remot« 

 from the scape. Scape 9 to KVinches high, terete, smooth, purplish, invested with 

 about 3 striate loose membranaceous sheaths, the lowest one proceeding from the 

 tuber. Flowers a dingy greenish brown, with strong tinges of dark purple, inb- 

 icssile, in a terminal bracteate raceme, erect,— the /rui* reflexed, or pendulous ; 

 brack linear-lanceolate, small. Segments of the perianth linear-lanceolate, or 

 oblong. Lip nearly as long as tho perianth-segments, dilated near the apex, an- 

 jruiculate. Column shorter than the lip, slightly curved ; pollinia*, waxy, lentic- 

 ular. Capsule ovoid-oblong, large, smooth. 



Hab. Rich woodlands: not very common. Fl. May— June. FY. Octo. 



Obs. The arid silvery-nerved leaf lives through the winter. It appears to b<* 

 constantly solitary; and I cannot comprehend how Willdenov, and Pursh came 



