ORCHIDACEiE. 



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X. GOODYERA. GOODYERA. 



Yery near to Spirantk, but the spike is not spiral, and the lip does 

 not embrace the column, has no callosities at the base, and is contracted 

 at the top into a recurved point. 



The species are very few, all from the northern hemisphere, and ge- 

 nerally from high latitudes. 



1. Creeping Goodyera. G-oodyera repens, Br. (Fig. 983.) 

 {Satyrium, Eng. Bot. t. 289.) 



Bootstock shortly creeping, with a few 

 thick fibres. Flowering stems 6 inches 

 to near a foot high, with a few ovate 

 stalked leaves near the base. Spike one- 

 sided as in the common Spiranth, bub 

 straight, with rather smaller flowers of 

 a greenish-white ; the lateral sepals ra- 

 ther shorter, and more spreading than 

 the upper sepal and petals. 



In moist woods, and forests, in north- 

 ern and Arctic Europe, Asia, and Ame- 

 rica, extending into the higher mountain- 

 chains of central Europe, the Caucasus, 

 and Altai. In Britain, confined to the 

 Scotch Highlands. Fl. end of summer. 



Fig* 983. 



XI. ORCHIS. ORCHIS. 



Bootstock producing each year a fleshy tuber by the side of the de- 

 caying one of the preceding year, the following year's stem shooting 

 from the top of the new tuber. Stem leafy at the base, with a termi- 

 nal spike of flowers, usually red or purple. Sepals and petals nearly 

 equal. Lip turned downwards, usually 3 to 5-lobed, or much dilated 

 at the extremity, and produced underneath at its base into a spur or 

 pouch. Anther on the face of the column, with 2 erect cells converging 

 together at the base, with an erect process, each cell containing a 

 pollen-mas3, contracted below into a short stalk, terminating in a gland. 



A considerable genus, chiefly European and north Asiatic, with a 

 very few North American species. The allied genus Habenaria is 

 separated by technical characters so difficult for the beginner to 



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