NEOT'TIA CER'NUA. 
DROOPING-ELOW’ERED NEOTTIA. 
Class. 
CYNANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ORCIIIDACE/E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration . 
Introduced 
N. America 
1 foot. 
July. 
Perennial. 
in 1796. 
No. 782. 
The name, Neottia, originated with the Flemish 
botanist Dodonams. It was first applied to the 
Neottia nidus avis, a plant which is common to 
England and the European continent; and which 
has been bandied from genus to genus, but gene- 
rally reserving in its name some reference to the 
idea conveyed by the Greek word neottia, a 
bird’s nest. The term was adopted in reference to 
the matted appearance of its fibrous roots. 
So much attention has of late been paid to orchi- 
daceous plants, that every species carries in itself 
a fountain of interest. The Neottia cernua has no 
great beauty to recommend it to notice, but it pre- 
sents one of the peculiar forms of the natural family 
to which it belongs. A large portion of its allies 
are tropical plants, which demand a hot-house, ex- 
pressly adapted to their requirements ; therefore, 
to the cultivator of hardy plants, such representa- 
tives of the order as can be preserved w ithout arti- 
ficially heated erections become desirable. 
The Neottia cernua should be potted in very 
light sandy peat, and have frame protection. It 
may be increased slowly by division of its roots. 
Hort. Kew. 2, 5, 199. 
