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ACKOANTHES. 
dix 'medial. — Texas to Tennessee, dwarfish* 
one foot high, vernal. Autikon rar. Ic. n. sp^ 
ACROANTHES Raf. 1818, Dexvaux 1810* 
Microstylis Nuttal 1818! Beck 1833! Lindley 
Gray . . . Malaxis sp. Michaux and authors. 
Ophrys Lin ... A very distinct Genus by habit 
and flowers, ascertained by me since 1802, na- 
med and described ten years before Nuttal’s 
subgenus, since made a Genus, by others who 
have neglected to restore my previous name, 
meaning uncolored flowers. 
Orchid ea with bulbose root , stem with a 
medial sheathing leaf, raceme with bracts and 
scattered minute green flowers . — Sepals nar- 
row connivent, the two inner narrower ; lip 
erect cuculate , dilatate : Column minute bear- 
ing 2 anthers terminal annexed. Gray says one 
anther with 2 cells and 4 pollens. Nuttal said 
2 unequal anthers, one with a single pollen ! 
which must be by abortion. Capsules globose, 
often abortive. 
1. Acr. laxiflora Raf. unifolia 1808.— 
Malaxis unifolia Mx. ophioglossoides Pers. 
Microstylis ophioglossoides N. Beck & c. — 
Stem harly angular, leaf ovate subcordate acute 
raceme oblong and lax, peduncles filiform; se- 
pals linear, inner filiform, lip emarginate tooth- 
ed in the middle. — From Newyork to Carolina, 
rare, Estival, in shady groves under trees.— 
Stem 8 to 10 inches high, flowers greenish.— 
Seen alive 1802. Figures in Pluk. aim. 435. f. 
4 and my Autikon 41. Ic. rar. 60. 
2. Acr. obtusifolia Raf. Scape angular, 
leaf cordate elliptical obtuse, raceme lax elong- 
ate, peduncles filiform ; sepals oblong, inner lin- 
ear, lip furcate or hastate, toothed in the mid- 
dle. — In Alabama and Georgia, probably the 
