ORCHID FAMILY. Orchidacetc. 



woods and meadows, from Me., south in the mountains 

 of N. Car., west to Minn. , and reported in Neb. (Webber). 

 . A tall and leafy northern species, with 



hyperborea green, or yellow-green flowers, erect lance- 

 Qreen, yellow- shaped leaves, and a dense narrow flower- 

 green spike sometimes 12 inches long, or longer. 

 une- uly Flower-spur short and incurved, petals, 

 sepals, and lip much shorter than the ovary. 8-30 inches 

 high. Cold, wet woods. Me., to N. J. and Iowa. 

 Habenaria ^ very similar species with much nar- 

 dilatata rower leaves and greenish white flowers 

 Greenish white with small obtuse sepals. Flower-lip 

 June-July lance-shaped from a lozenge-shaped base. 

 Cold, wet bogs. Conn., to Mich, and Minn. 



, The two large, shining, nearly round, or 



Orchis broadly oval light green leaves usually lie 



Habenaria upon the ground, but are sometimes raised 

 Hookeriana above it. The somewhat twisted and bare 

 Whitish gtem bears 10 _ 30 U p r ight flowers, with 



June-Tugutt S reen lateral se P als curving backward, 

 narrow yellow-green petals, and the throat 

 accented by two lateral spots of yellow-ochre. The lip 

 is lance-shaped, incurved, and pointed ; the slender white- 

 green spur nearly 1 inch deep is especially adapted to 

 the long tongues of the moths. 8-15 inches high. 

 Woods and borders of wooded swamps from Me. , south 

 to N. J., west to Minn, and Iowa. 



A larger species, the two nearly round 

 Leaved Orchis leaves of which are sometimes 7 inches 

 Habenaria across, and lie flat upon the ground ; they 

 orbiculata are light green and shining above, and 

 Whitish silvery white beneath. The stem is not 



July- August" bare ' but bracted ! the whitish yellow- 

 green flowers in a loose cluster, with the 

 upper sepal nearly round, the lateral ones ovate, and 

 the narrow lip obtuse and drooping, almost three times 

 the length of the small lance-shaped petals ; the slender, 

 curved, whitish spur nearly 2 inches long thickened 

 toward the blunt point is peculiarly adapted to the long 

 tongue of ope of the lesser sphinx-moths. " A larger in- 



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