358 OIlCillDACEiE. 



lulb or corm, which also produces late in the summer a large 

 oval, many-nerved and plaited petioled green leaf from its 

 apex, lasting through the winter. 



A. hyemale, Nutt. Putty-root. Adam-and-Eve. 



Rich shady w.iods, rare. Miy, Jane. Hulls 2 or 3 together, horizontally con' 

 fleeted, often 1 inch in diameter, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter. Leaf 

 solitary, 4 to 6 inches long, elliptic acute at each end, on a petiole 2 to 3 incheslong, 

 inserted on the summit of tha bulb. Flowers brownish, erect, racemed, on a scape 

 I fool high. Lip whitish and speckled. Capsule large, smooth, nodding. 



5. TIPULARIA, Nutt. Crane-fly Orchis. 



Tip-aid, the crane-fly; from the fancied resemblance of the flowers. 



Sepals and petals spreading oblong or spatulate. Lip 

 3-lobed, prolonged underneath into a filiform spur twice as 

 long as the flower. Column narrow and wingless. Anther 

 lid-like, terminal : pollen-masses 2, each 2-parted. — A 

 perennial herb, with solid bulls, connected horizontally, pro- 

 ducing a single ovate nerved leaf, and along and naked slen- 

 der scape, bearing a many-floivered raceme of greenish flow* 

 ers } tinged with purple. 



T. DISCOLOR, Nutt. Two-colored Crane-fly Orchis. 



Pine woods, rare. July. Scape 10 to 13 inches high, with 1 or 3 sheaths at the 

 base. Leaf solitary on a Blender petiole. Flowers small, nodding, greenish with 

 & tinge of purple. Spur nearly 1 inch long. 



6. ORCHIS, Linn. Orchis. 



The ancient Greek name. 



Flowers ringent. Sepals and petals nearly equal, all, 

 or nearly all converging upwards and arching over the column. 

 Lip turned downwards, with a spur on the under side at 

 base. Pollen-masses pedicillatc, collected into 2 large 

 masses borne on a slender stalk, the base of which is at- 

 tached to the 2 glands of the stigma : glands contained in 

 a common little pouch. — Perennial hcrhs } with showy flow- 

 ers in a spike. 



O. SPECTABTLIS, L. Shoicy Orchis. 



Leaves 2, radical, oblong-obovate, obtuse ; scape angular, naked, few-flowered, 

 scarcely longer than the leaves; bracts leaf-like, lanceolate; tj)ur club-shaped, 

 shorter than the ovary. 



Shady woods. May, June. Scape 4 to 7 inches high, arising from a thick fleshy 

 f b.-ous root, 5-angled, smooth. Leaves 3 to 5 inches long. Sepals and petals all 

 vaulted, pink-purple; Zip ovate, undivided, and with the obtuse spur white. 



