512 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



to describe it as being in pair*. The tubers contain & viscid gam, which, according 

 lo Purahy affords a strong cement for broken china, or glass ; but I believe he is 

 mistaken in that fact, also. It is the only species of the genus ; and, in its inflor* 

 escence, has much resemblance to Corallorhiza. 



409. LIPARIS. Rich. Lindl Ency. p. 751. 



[Supposed from the Gr. Liparos, fat, or unctuous ; from its smooth shining leaves.] 



Perianth with the segments distinct, spreading, or deflected, sublinear, 

 narrow. LiU flat, diluted, entire, turned various ways. Column 

 winged. PoUinia 4, parallel!, without pedicels or glands. 



T. L. lilufolia, Rich. Tieaves ovate, shorter than the scape ; inner 

 lateral segments of the perianth filiform, deflected ; lip broad, obovatc* 

 cuneate, mucronate. Heck, Bot. p. 350. 

 Malaxis liliifolia, of the Author?, generally > here cited* 

 Lilt-lkavkd Li paris. Vulgo — Tway-bladc. 



Root perennial, fibrous and fasciculate, bearing an ovoid bulb at the base of 

 the scape. Leaves 2, radical, opposite, rather spreading, 2 to 4 inches long, and 

 1 to 3 inches wide, varying from lance-ovate to elliptic, and orbicular-ovate, 

 mostly acute, slightly nerved, very smooth, yellowish-green, shining, membrana* 

 ceous and diaphanous when dried, narrowed at base, subsessile, loosely sheathing 

 the base of the scape, and embraced below by a sheathing membrane, or rudimont 

 of a third leaf. Scape 3 to 6 inches high, angular, smooth, the angles often mem* 

 branaccously margined. Flotcers rather large, and spreading, in a loose oblong 

 terminal raceme; bracts small, lanceolate, membranaceous. Segments of the 

 perianth pale straw-color, or ochroleucous, narrow, sublinear, the 2 inner lateral 

 ones filiform, deflected ; lip generally purplish, as long as the perianth-segments, 

 broad-cuneate, with a very short abrupt acumination ; ovary slender, clavate, 

 angular, and, with the pedicel, often purple. Capsule about 3 fourths of an inch 

 long, erect, angular, oblong, or somewhat tapering below to an angular clavitc 

 pedicel about as long as the capsule. 



Hab. Moist woodlands: frequent. Fl. June. Fr. September. 



2* L. Correaita, Spreng. Leaves lance-oblong, as long as the scape; 

 segments of the perianth involute on the margin, spreading ; lip oblong f 

 channelled, cordately recurved at apex. Beck, Bot. p. 360. 

 Malaxis Correana. Nutt. Gen. 2. p. 196. 



M. longifolia. Bart. Phil. 2. p. 142. Bart. Jim. 3. />, 12 (Ico*, tab. 

 75.). Eat. Man. p. 2 1 9. 



Correa's Liparis. 



Root perennial, fibrous and fasciculate, bearing a bulb at the base of the scape. 

 Leaves 2, radical, opposite, rather erect, 3 to 6 inches long, and 1 to 2 inches 

 wide, lance-oblong, or elliptic-lanceolate, acuie, smooth, yellowish-green, narrow- 

 ed at base to a margined sheathing petiole 1 to 2 inches in length,— the base, or 

 petioles, embraced by a membranous sheath. Scape 3 to 6 inches high, smooth, 

 sulcate-angled, the angles often membranaccously margined. Flatters rather 

 small, erect, or almost appressed, in a terminal raceme ; bracts small, lance-ovate, 

 membranaceous. Segments of the perianth pale yellowish-green,— the outer ones 

 lance-linear, or linear-oblong, with the margins folded in, the inner lateral ones 

 vtr/ narrow, linear, spreading; Up pale yellowish-green, shorter than the peri- 

 anth-segments, oblong; ovary clavate, yellowish-green. Capsule abost half an 



