This elegant orchideous plant appears to have been intro- 
duced into our gardens from Newfoundland by Dr William 
PlTCAiRN, in 1777, and is found likewise to be a native of 
North America, where its native places of growth extend from 
Canada to Pennsylvania. Among a valuable collection of living 
plants, sent to our Botanic Garden from the neighbourhood of 
Montreal by Mr Kippin, there were some roots of ^ this, which 
being placed in a large box, flowered beautifully under a common 
frame in the beginning of the month of June. Mr Cleghorn, 
of the same place, has been kind enough to supply us vvith dried 
specimens, exactly similar to those here figured ; but other in- 
dividuals which I have received from my friend Dr Boott, ga- 
thered in the neighbourhood of Boston, differ in having a far 
larger and more densely crowded spike, yet (unlike almost every 
other plant which I have received from that fertile country, 
where vegetation attains an unusually large and luxuriant size) 
with flowers not one-third of the size of the present. In every 
every other particular they appear to be the same. 
We find that plants of Habenaria jimhriata thrive well 
in a mixture of peat and decayed vegetable mould. They are 
placed in the same box with the roots of Cypripedium specta- 
bile, which has likewise flowered with us this year in the great- 
est perfection. 
Fig. 1. Single flower, magnijied. Fig. 2. Portion of the germen, with the 
column of fructification and spur (the petals being removed). Fig. 3. 
Single pollen-mass, removed from the cell. — All rnore or less magnified. 
