Pl.eiid.pTu 21. ORCHIDEiE. 145. Spiranthes. 209 
Bulls 1 to 3, long ; stem 6 in. high, smooth below, 
downy above, viscid; spike long, spiral, many-flowered; 
Iractece lanceolate, longer than the ovary, concave, pu- 
bescent; flowers small, white, odorous. 
XII. 146. NEOTTIA. Lobel. Birds-nest . 
Ovary pedicelled ; perigonium laxly connivent and bent 
into a globe ; lip spurless, heartshaped ; gynostemium shortly 
stipitate : gynizus transverse ; rostellum longer than the 
gynizus, laminate, obliquely ascending ; proscolla apiculate, 
minute, jointed and bent back to the hinder face of the 
rostellum; anther intra-marginal, short-heartshape ; pollen 
in oblong masses, agglutinating a little below the tip; vesicles 
globular, 3 or 4-cellulate. — Root fascicled; scape leafless; 
herb brown, no part green. 
Neottia abortiva. Abortive birds-nest . 
Nidus avis. Ran Syn. 382, 1. 
Satirium abordvum, sive nidus avis, Ger. em. 228. 
Orchis abortiva rufa, sive nidus avis, Park. 1362. 
Ophrys Nidus avis, Lin. S. P. 1339. 
Epipactis Nidus avis, Allioni Ped. 1849. 
Neottia Nidus avis. Rich. M. M. 4, 59. 
Birds-nest. 
Woods; perennial; May and June. 
Stem 18 in. high with alternate sheathing scales, leafless; 
flowers brownish ; sepales blunt ; lip obcordate, twice as 
long as the sepales. 
XIII. 147. LISTER A. R. Brown. T way-blade. 
Ovary pedicelled ; perigonium loosely bent into a globe ; 
Up spurless, hanging, linear, flat, 2-cut ; gynostemium shortly 
stipitate ; gynizus transverse ; rostellum longer than the 
gynizus, laminate, obliquely ascending; proscolla apicular, 
minute, jointed and bent back to the hinder face of the 
rostellum; anther intra-marginal, short-heartshape; pollen 
in oblong masses, agglutinating a little below the tip ; vesicles 
globular, 3 or 4-cellulate. — Root fibrous; leaves 2, opposite, 
sessile, curvately ribbed ; scape 2-leafed ; flowers greenish, 
loosely spiked ; capsules globular. 
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