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Grass Pink; Calopogon 

 Limodorum tuberosum Linnaeus 



Plate i i.i 



Scape slender, 12 to 18 inches high from a round, solid bulb, arising 

 from the bulb of the previous year, a single leaf appearing the first season, 

 followed the next year by the flowering stem and a single linear-lanceolate 

 leaf, 8 to 12 inches long, one-fourth to 1 inch wide. Flowers three to fifteen, 

 forming a loose, terminal spike or raceme, each about 1 inch broad, purplish 

 pink; sepals and petals nearly alike, separate, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute; lip broadly triangular and dilated at the apex, bearded along the 

 face with yellow, orange and rose-colored hairs. 



Common in bogs or boggy meadows. Newfoundland to Ontario and 

 Minnesota, south to Florida and Missouri. Flowering in June and July. 



Wide-leaved Ladies'-tresses 

 Ibidium plantagineum (Rafinesque) House 



Plate 42a 



A rather inconspicuous little orchid, 4 to 10 inches high with tuberous- 

 fleshy roots. Leaves three to five to a stem, mostly near the base, lanceo- 

 late, 2 to 5 inches long. Flowers spreading in a dense, terminal spike, 

 1 to 2 inches long, one-third to one-half of an inch thick, each flower about 

 one-fourth of an inch long; petals and sepals white, the lateral sepals free, 

 narrowly lanceolate, the upper sepals somewhat united with the petals; 

 lip pale yellow on the face, oblong, not contracted in the middle, the wavy 

 apex rounded, crisped or fringed, the base short clawed, bearing mere traces 

 of callosities at the base. 



Moist banks, meadows and bogs, Nova Scotia to Minnesota, south to 



Virginia and Wisconsin. Flowers in June and July. 



The most showy species of Ladies'-tresses is Ibidium cernuum 

 (Linnaeus) House (figure X) , which is 6 to 24 inches high and pubescent 

 above. Leaves mainly toward the base of the stem, linear-lanceolate or 

 linear, 3 to 14 inches long; flowers very fragrant, white or yellowish, forming 



