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The Orchids of Ohio. 
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2. Lysias hookeriana (Gr. )Rydb. Hooker’s Orchis. Stem 8-16 
in. high, not bracted; leaves orbicular, oval, or obovate, 
fleshy, shiny, spreading or ascending, 4-7 in. long; flowers 
in a rather loosely many-flowered raceme, yellowish green; 
lip linear-lanceolate, 3-4 in. long; flowers in a spike 3-6 in. 
long, greenish; lip 2-3 in. long, 2-3 toothed or lobed at the 
apex. A sturdier plant than the preceding with a closer 
raceme and thicker leaves. Medina County. 
Blephariglottis Raf. 
Plants with tall leafy stems and fleshy or tuberous roots; 
flowers several or numerous, in an open spike with foliaceous 
bracts; corolla white, yellow, or purplish; lip variously fringed 
or 3-parted and cut toothed; spur longer than the lip. 
1. Lip not divided or 3-parted, fringed 2 
1. Lip 3— parted, the divisions toothed or fringed 3 
2. Flowers orange or yellow, lip oblong B. ciliaris 
2. Flowers white, lip narrowly ovate-lanceolate B. blephariglottis 
3. Flowers greenish yellow or white 4 
3. Flowers violet or purplish 5 
4. Flowers greenish yellow; petals entire, fringe of a few threads. .B. lacera 
B. leucophaea 
5. Segments of the lip deeply fringed B. psycodes 
5. Segments of the lip cut -toothed B. peramoena 
1. Blephariglottis ciliaris (L.) Rydb. Yellow Fringed-orchis. 
Stem 16-28 in. high, slender, smooth, bracted; leaves 
lanceolate, acute, 4—8 in. long, the upper smaller; flowers 
orange or yellow, large, showy, in a close many-flowered 
spike; lip 5-7 lines long, copiously fringed more than half 
way to the middle. A tall slender plant with showy yellow- 
fringed flowers, growing in meadows. Fulton County. 
2. Blephariglottis blephariglottis (Willd.) Rydb. White Fringed- 
orchis. Leaves more slender than in the preceding species; 
flowers pure white, somewhat smaller than those of preced- 
ing species, in a densely or rather loosely manv-flowered 
spike; lip narrow, oblong, copiously or sparsely fringed. A 
tall plant with white fringed flowers, growing in bogs or 
swamps. Geauga and Portage Counties. 
3. Blephariglottis lacera (Mx.) Rvdb. Ragged Orchis. Stem 
rather slender, bracted, leafy, 12—24 in. high; leaves firm, 
lanceolate, 4]/£-8 in. long, the upper gradually smaller; 
flowers greenish yellow in a long loose spike; segments of the 
lip narrow, deeply fringed, the fringe of a few threads about 
Y 2 in . long. A tall slender plant with a ragged looking spike of 
greenish yellow flowers, growing in swamps and wet woods. 
Cuyahoga, Portage, Crawford, Wayne, Stark, Licking, and 
Fairfield Counties. 
