214 151. Pseudorchis. 21. ORCHIDEiE. Pl.end.ph. 
Sandy moors ; perennial ; May to July. 
Root bulbose, scaly; scape 4 in. h\gh; flowers lemon- 
colour. 
XVIII. 152. MALAXIS. Swartz. Malaxis, 
Ovary pedicelled, generally imperfect and abortive ; peri - 
gonium very much spread vertically; the odd sepale entirely 
spread out, hanging ; the paired sepales upright, the inner 
much narrower, bent back or turned over on the sides of 
the former ; lip behind, upright, expanded, rather heart- 
shape, pointed, generally undivided, rarely 2-cut with an 
intermediate point, embracing the bottom of the gynoste- 
mium by a slight or deep cut at the bottom, and enclosing 
the bases of all the sepales ; gynostemium very short, up- 
right, ending above and forwards in a truncate lamina, 
nearly undivided, or at most 3-cut ; gynizus slightly de- 
pressed into a lamina ; rostellum 0 ; anther for some time 
intramarginal, entirely behind, short ; cells ovate, very 
simple within ; pollen in oblong masses. — Bulb ovate, scaly, 
rooting at the base ; leaves few, alternate, sheathing ; scape 
angular; raceme many-flowered ; bractew small ; herb light 
green ; leaves few ; flowers greenish. 
Malaxis paludosa . Marsh malaxis , 
Leaves 3 or 4, spathulate, rough at the tip. 
Orchis minima bulbosa, Dillen in Ran Syn. 378, 9. 
Bifolium palustre, Park. 5 05; Rail Syn. 385,3. 
Ophrys paludosa, Lin. S. P. 1341. 
Malaxis paludosa, Swartz , 165. 
Malaxis palustris, Richard Mem. Mm. 4, 60, 
Marsh twayblade. 
Spongy bogs ; perennial ; June and July. 
Scape 4 in. high, rather naked ; flowers yellow-green ; 
3 outer sepales twice as large as the inner; lip only half as 
long as the sepales. 
XIX. 153. CORALLORHIZA. Haller. Coral-root . 
Ovary pedicelled, pedicell short ; perigonium arched in 
an oblong form ; lip oblong reversed-oval, channelled be- 
low, slightly cut on each edge with a small crenule, spread 
over on the inside with prominences disposed lengthwise, 
above spreading and turned back ; perule very short, ad- 
nate ; gynostemium long, wingless, rather channelled before 
with prominent edges; gynizus nearly semiorbipul^te ; ros 
