Dec., 1909.] 
The Orchids of Ohio. 
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itary, erect or declined, peduncled; lip 3-lobed, crested along 
a narrow band, undulate. A tall plant with a conspicuous 
whorl of leaves near the top, growing in moist woods. 
Defiance, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Medina, Coshocton, and Fair- 
field Counties. 
Triphora Nutt. 
Low herbs with fleshy tubers and axillary flowers; lip erect, 
slightly clawed, and more or less 3-lobed, not crested, spurless; 
capsule oval, drooping. 
1. Triphora trianthophora (Sw.) Rydb. Nodding Triphora. Stem 
glabrous, 3-12 in. high, from a tuberous root; leaves 2-8, 
alternate, ovate, 3-9 lines long, clasping; flowers 1-7, 
axillary, peduncled, pale purple, at first nearly erect, soon 
drooping; lip clawed, somewhat 3-lobed, crisped above, 
about as long as the petals. A slender, delicate plant, with 
nodding flower, growing in rich woods. Huron, Cuyahoga, 
Summit, Stark, Licking, Franklin and Ross Counties. 
Arethusa L. 
Low herbs with small bulbs and mostly solitary flowers on 
slender scapes, the solitary leaf linear, hidden at first in the upper 
scale, protruding after flowering; lip dilated, recurved and 
spreading at the apex, crested on the face with straight somewhat 
fleshy hairs, slightly gibbous at the base. 
1. Arethusa bulbosa L. Arethusa. Stem, scapose, 4-1 2 in. high, 
bearing 1-3 loose sheathing bracts; leaf linear, many- 
nerved, 4-6 in. long; flower rose-purple, solitary (rarely 2), 
%-2 in. long; lip usually drooping beneath the sepals and 
petals, the apex broad, rounded, variegated with purple 
blotches. A low plant with a conspicuous flower, and 1 
leaf, growing in bogs. Licking and Portage Counties. 
Limodorum L. 
Scapose herbs with solid round bulbs which arise from the 
bulb of the previous year, a leaf appearing the first season suc- 
ceeded in the following year by the scape; flowers several, in a 
loose terminal spike or raceme ; lip spreading, raised on a narrow 
stalk, dilated at the apex; bearded on the upper side with long 
club-shaped hairs. 
1. Limodorum tuberosum L. Calopogon. Scape slender, naked, 
1 2 — 33 3^ in- high; leaf linear-lanceolate, 8-12 in. long, 3-12 
lines wide, sheathing, with several scales below it; spike 
4-16 in. long, 3-15 flowered; lip as long as the column, 
broadly triangular at the apex. A tall plant with showy, 
purplish-pink flowers, and one grass-like leaf, growing in 
bogs and meadows. Fulton, Lucas, Erie, Geauga, Portage, 
Summit, Ashland, Stark, Clarke, Fairfield and Licking 
Counties. 
