A native of N. America, from Carolina to Canada, from 
which latter country the individuals from which the accompa- 
nying figures were taken, were sent, by the kindness of the 
Countess of Dalhousie, last autumn to our garden. They 
flowered in June of the year 1824 under a common frame. 
As the genus Arethusa now stands in the Hortus Kewen- 
sis, it contains only the present species ; and this, however it 
may be allied in general appearance to the Fogonia ophioglos- 
soides of this work, is abundantly distinct from it in its gene- 
ric character. 
Fig. 1. Flower with the lip forcibly bent down. Fig. 2. Lip. Fig. 3. 
Upper portion of the column. Fig. 4. Interior view of the anther. 
Fig. 5. Two of the Pollen-masses. — More or less magnified. 
