THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 89 
The Large Coral-root, C. multifiora, shows itself in dry 
woods about this time, in Vermont, dull pink, purple and 
yellow shading into each other on its scape and blossoms, 
and a decided knob borne on the ovary answering to a spur. 
This species is found in Washington Territory and California, 
as well as in the Northern States and Canada, and it was found 
in one locality at an elevation of 7,000 feet 
by the explorers of the goth Parallel, their 
botanical report describing it as flowering in 
July, and having “ sepals and petals strongly 
veined.” Our New England woods bring 
forth at the same time another parasitic 
plant, puzzlingly like a Coral-root to the 
young collector, and this, known as Epiphe- 
gus or Beech-drops, is a stiff, unhappy look- 
ing thing, which, if it really masquerades as 
an Orchid, quite overdoes the business by 
branching into a low shrub and blooming 
more profusely than M/ultiflora even. 
Having spoken rather disparagingly of the’ 
Coral-roots, I scarcely know how to de- 
scribe or to make my finest pointed pencil 
flatter the One-leaved Adder’s Mouth, 17Z- 
crostylis monophyllos, or the other species, 
coming later in July, WV. ophioglossoides ; di- Fic.26.—AppeRs Movtus. 
i. | Microstylis ophioglossoi- 
minutive bulbous herbs that stagger under des. 
their scientific titles. Wholly attired in MCrOstyiis” monophymies: 
green, ,and odorless, they are well concealed in their swamps 
and wet forests, but to the tiny gnats and flies that must fer- 
tilize them they are fully as important as the gigantic Lady’s 
Slipper that may overshadow them is to its bee. Here, in 
each flower, are spreading sepals and petals; a long, round 
column with an erect anther; 4 waxy, pollen-masses in one 
row. The coat of arms, though small, is legitimately dis- 
