48 CoraHorhiza Mcmalis. 



aridncss for which it is remarkable. Tlie colour is a whitish-green, 

 and the apex, which is acute, is often sphacelated. Grows on decayed 

 vegetable soil, in shaded woods, and on the sides of fertile hills, from the 

 middle to the southern states; not common. In the vicinity of this city 

 it is found above the Falls of Schuylkill. Flowering time May, at 

 which time the leaf does not appear. 



Among the Orchidean plants of the United States there are few more 

 handsome than the present species of Mr. Brown's genus Corallorlii/.a. 

 The singularity of its hiemal habit in the foliage, and the structure of 

 the root, and other circumstances attending that part, have not failed 

 to attract the notice of the vulgar, who have attached great virtue 

 to it ; and by them the plant is commonly called Adam and Eve. Pursh 

 states, that the bruised root mixed with water makes a strong cement, 

 by which broken china and glass may be durably united. 



Fig. 1. Represents the top of the plant in flower, separated at the 

 mark * from fig. 2, which is the lower portion and root. 



3. The outline of the leaf. 



4. The column and lower lip, divested of the petals. 



(All the size of nature.) 



