THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 43 
the thick end of the pollinium inwards so that the stem and the 
viscid surface of the disc are no longer parallel as they were at 
first, and as they are represented in the 
section, fig.9,,.C. .At the same. time;—the 
drum rotates through nearly a quarter of a 
circle, and this moves the stalk downward 
like the hand of a clock, depressing the 
thick end of the pollinium.” <A disc once 
affixed to the side of an insect’s face, by 
the time another flower on another plant is 
teached, “the pollen-bearing end of the 
pollinitum will have moved downward and 
inward and will infallibly strike ... 
the broad stigmatic surface between the 
anther-cells. The little rudimentary tail 
projecting beyond the drum-like pedicel 
shows that the disc has been carried a 
little inward, and that originally the two 
discs stood even further in advance of the 
stigma than they do at present.” 
flabenarta viridis, var. bracteata, the 
Bracted Green Orchis, figures in old bot- 
Fic. 10.—BRACTED GREEN 
The Euro- 
anies as Platanthera bracteata. Odes 
pean species, 1. virzdis, according to Dar-. 4: vires, var. pracreara. 
win, has the viscid under side of each disc “enclosed in a 
small pouch;” “this,” says Gray, “is not yet verified in ours.” 
Although it is usually assigned to the following month, I gen- 
erally find the Bracted Green Habenaria blooming with ZH. 
Flookert, and therefore introduce it here. It has the same green- 
ish-yellow colors, but differs in several respects, such as a leafy 
stem, bristling bracts, smaller flowers with toothed lip and very 
short, two-lobed, bag-shaped nectary which, it would seem, almost 
any insect could rifle. Neither beautiful nor singular, as far as 
outward appearance goes, it occupies a neutral position, and 
