56 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 
A nearly related but rarer flower, the Whorled Pogonia, P. 
verticillata, springing from a fibrous root, comes with Arethusa 
or follows her pretty closely, and also makes its home in wet 
places. In Pogonia, “the only group of which Darwin has 
given no account,’ for he mentions but one species and then 
quotes from an American writer, the column arches over the 
lip, as in Arethusa, but is “ free from it, elongated, club-shaped 
and wingless.” The anther is also “ terminal and lid-like,” but 
has a stalk, and the powdery-granular pollen-masses are but 2 
in number, each occupying a cell. It will be seen from the 
illustration how very long the sepals are when compared with 
the petals. My sketch was made from a specimen not fully 
blown, and the three lobes into which the lip in this species is 
divided are folded together too much. A narrow crest runs 
down the middle of the lip. Gray calls the flower “ dusky 
purple,” but I should prefer, myself, to describe it as brownish- 
purple, while yellowish specimens have been met with, and 
Barton’s plate represents it as yellow, with the sepals strongly 
tinged with brown. The whorl of leaves beneath does not add 
much grace to the flower, and if it were not so stiff we might 
call it dishevelled. The whole plant lacks the trimness and 
poise of Arethusa. 
The occurrence of this Pogonia in the Northern New England 
States is a matter of doubt, particularly in Maine, where the 
“Portland Catalogue” issued in 1862, and the botanists of the 
present day are ranged on opposite sides. From the stations 
sent me, I judge this Orchid to be more common in Connecti- 
cut and Massachusetts than is generally supposed. It is met 
with as far west as Michigan, and as far south as Florida, while 
a smaller species, P. afinzs, bearing greenish-yellow flowers, is 
so dependent on a genial climate that it has been found but 
once in New England (at New Haven, Conn.), and, ambitious 
as lam, I admit that it hardly seems fair to keep it on our 
list. 
