OECHIDACEiE. 



807 



or broadly lanceolate, with a shorter 

 outer sheath. Stem from 2 or 3 to near 

 6 inches high. Flowers from 3 or 4 to 

 8 or 10 in the raceme ; the sepals and 

 petals very narrow, about two lines long 

 or rather more ; the lip broadly ovate, 

 erect at the base, turned back at the tip. 

 Column much shorter. 



In bogs and wet places, scattered over 

 central Europe, from southern Scandi- 

 navia and western France to the Russian 

 frontier. In Britain, only in Cambridge- 

 shire and some of the neighbouring 

 counties. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 969. 



III. CORALROOT. COEALLOKHIZA. 



Brown or yellowish herbs, without green leaves ; the flowers in a 

 loose terminal spike. Sepals and petals nearly alike, the lip larger, 

 often with 2 lateral lobes and 2 projecting ridges on the surface. Co- 

 lumn short, with a terminal lid-like anther, and 2 pairs of globular 

 pollen-masses, attached horizontally. 



Besides the European species, the genus comprises a small number 

 from North America and eastern Asia. 



1. Spurless Coralroot. Corallorhi^a innata, Br. (Fig. 970.) 



(Ophrys CorallorJiiza, Eng. Bot. t. 1547.) 



A slender plant, 6 to 9 inches high, of a light brown or pale yellow 

 colour, slightly tinged with green in the lower part, with a few short, 

 sheathing scales instead of leaves ; the rootstock forming a number of 

 short, thick, fleshy, club-shaped fibres, densely interwoven, and nearly 

 white. Flowers small, of a yellowish-green ; the sepals narrow-lan- 

 ceolate, about 2 lines long ; the petals rather shorter ; the lip oblong, 

 white, and hanging. 



