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GYNANDRIA, DIANDRIA. 
f 
Odontorhiza. 
hiemalis. 
£. C. lip entire, oval and obtuse, margin crenu- 
late ; spur obsolete, every where adnate to the 
germ ; leaves none ; capsule subglobose. — Root 
much branched, dentate | scape 8 to 10 inches 
high, attenuated and rather slender, roundish 
and bulbous at the base j sheaths ochreate, about 
3 in number; flowers numerous, pendulous; 
petals brownish, connivent, and all inclined to 
the upper side of the corolla; lip dilated, white, 
and elegantly spotted with violet-purple, palate 
bidentate; base of the column marginated; cap- 
sule short and subglobose.« — Mitt. 
A smaller plant than No. 1, which it resembles. Seldom 
more than seven inches high. Edges of sandy woods in Jersey — 
in those near Camden, not unfrequent. I have found it very 
rare west of the Delaware. Perennial. July, August. 
3. C. leaf solitary, ovate, striate; lip trifid, ob- 
tuse, with the palate ridged ; central lobe round- 
ed, crenulate.— 
Arethusa spicata, Walt. 
Cymbidium hyemale, Willd. 
About twelve inches high. Flowers brown. Willdenow de- 
scribes this plant as having two leaves, but I have not seen it 
with more than one, which is covered with numerous longitu- 
dinal nerves. In the high shady woods above the falls of 
Schuylkill, west side ; very rare. Root consisting of two bulbs 
joined by a short connecting radicle. The plant is sometimes 
called Adam and Eve. Perennial. May. 
ORDER II. DIANDRIA. 
341. CYPRIPEDIUM. L. Swartz. R. Brown. {OrcMdce.) 
Ztif ventricose, inflated, saccate. Petals 4, 
the under one bifid. The column terminat- 
ing behind in a petaloid lobe. — JSTutt. 
