GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
499 
2. PlJLCHELLUS. 
C. foliis radicalibus, 
angusto - lanceolatis, 
nervosis; scapo 6 — 10 
floro; labello erecto, 
basi attenuate, lamina 
expansa, disco conca- 
vo, piloso. 
Leaves radical, nar- 
row lanceolate, nerved; 
scape 6 — 10 flowered; 
lip erect, tapering at 
base, the lateral seg- 
ments expanding, the 
disk concave, hairy. 
Nutt. 2. p. 194. 
Cymbidium Pulchellum, Sp. pi. 4. p. 105. Pursh, 2. p. 592. 
Limodorum Tuberosum, Mich. 2. p. 159. 
Ophrys Barbata, Walt. p. 221. 
Root tuberous, nearly round. Stem twelve to eighteen inches high, erect, 
naked, glabrous. Leaf generally one, sheathing the base of the stem, (but 
showing around its own base the vestiges of other leaves, perhaps those of 
former years,) eight to ten inches long, scarcely one wide, nerved, acute, 
erect, somewhat rigid. Floivers resupine? rather distant, in a terminal 
spike. Bracteal leaf small, very acute. Segments of the perianth lanceo- 
late, the two lateral exterior ones oblique, the interior rather narrower. La- 
be llum on the upper side of the perianth (is not the flower as in Cranichis 
resupine?) about as long as the petals, attenuate and distinctly three-nerved 
or ribbed along the claw, very much dilated at the summit, very obtuse, con- 
spicuously bearded just where it begins to contract, margin entire, column 
declining from the lip, curved, tapering to the base, bearing two dilated 
wings near the summit. Anther , as in all of this division, received into a 
small cavity at the summit of the column, attached behind by a short jointed 
pedicel. 
Flowers incarnate, large for this class, very handsome. 
t Yar. Graminifolia. 
I This variety which is remarkable and most probably a distinct species, 
* yet offers no prominent mark of distinction. Its flowers are scarcely more 
half the size of the preceding, the leaves one to two lines wide, the bracteal 
leaves acuminate, and the column I think comparatively shorter. It flowers 
earlier. 
Grows in damp soils. The first variety delights to grow on old decaying 
and floating logs, in mill ponds, &c. mingled with mosses and aquatic 
grasses. 
Flowers May — June. 
The second in pine barrens. 
Flowers April — May. 
