WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 



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at the top of which is a loose 

 raceme of six to fifteen small, yellow- 

 ish green flowers; sepals and petals 

 minute, the lip one-fourth to one- 

 half of an inch long, and two-parted 

 or split nearly to the base four to 

 eight times as long as the tiny petals. 



A rare plant of cold, sphagnous 

 bogs in the northern counties, west 

 to Wayne and Onondaga counties and 

 south to Fulton county. In the 

 Appalachian region south to Georgia, 

 this is not a rare species. 



Very similar to the Southern 

 Twayblade is the Heart-leaved 

 Twayblade (Ophrys cordata 

 Linnaeus) in which the two sessile 

 leaves are rounded or slightly heart- 

 shaped, and the lip of the flower only 

 two or three times as long as the 

 petals. It is not rare in the Adiron- 

 dack region but on account of its 

 small size is easily overlooked. It 

 has also been found in deep cedar 

 swamps in certain other portions of 

 the State. 



Downy Rattlesnake Plantain 

 Peramium pubescens (Willdenow) 



MaC Allllan (Photograph by E. A. Eamts) 



Figure xii Figure XI 



Flowering scape 6 to 20 inches Southern Twayblade 



high, densely glandular-pubescent, (Ophrys australis (Lindley) House) 



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