OCTOBER, 1907.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
SPIRANTHES GRACILIS. 
ONE of the great charms of the Orchid family is the infinite variety which 
its flowers assume, in form, structure and colour, and although the one 
represented by the annexed figure is not a cultivated Orchid it will probably 
interest many readers. It shows the curious North American Spiranthes 
gracilis, natural size, and is reproduced from a photograph sent to us by an 
‘enthusiastic Orchid cultivator, Mr. F. J. Le Moyne, of Winfield, Tennessee, 
who has also turned his attention to some of the native Orchids of the 
‘district in which he resides. The genus Spiranthes takes its name from the 
Fig. 35: 2PIRANTHES GRACILIS. 
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ike in a spire rm, as Is so 
fact that the flowers are arranged on the spike in a spiral form : 
Spi ilis, Beck, is < an 
well shown in the figure. Spiranthes gracilis, Beck, is a common * 
Y also somewhat variable. Mr. 
widely diffused species in North America, and also pret hat ; uria % nis 
; shows the different forms that the 
Le Moyne remarks that the photograph shows th | jeg 
The flowers are white, with a tinge of green in the 
a single rank, which winds round and round the 
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l ipti d the thick- 
stem in corkscrew fashion. The leaves are ovate or elliptic, and ‘ | 
é , ve nothing quite 
It is very graceful, and we have nothing q 
flower spikes take. 
‘centre, and are arranged in 
‘ened roots fasciculate. 
comparable with it among cultivated Orchids. 
