Dec., 1909.] 
The Orchids of Ohio. 
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4. Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb. Small Yellow Lady’s-slipper. 
Stem 1-2 ft. high, pubescent, leafy; leaves 5, oval, elliptic, 
or lanceolate, 2-6 in. long; flower solitary; lip golden yellow, 
Y±—l Yi in. long, purple spotted. Grows in woods and 
thickets. Lorain, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Stark, Montgomery, 
Clarke, Franklin and Gallia Counties. 
The variety known as Cypripedium hirsutum Mill., Large 
Yellow Lady’s-slipper, is a tall showy plant with leafy stem 
and larger flower than C. parviflorum, with pale yellow lip 
l]/£-2 in. long. In woods and thickets. Fulton, Lucas, 
Wyandot, Medina, Portage, Auglaize, Champaign, Licking, 
and Gallia Counties. 
Galeorchis Rydb. 
Rhizome very short with numerous fleshy roots; stem 
scape-like with 2 large round leaves at the base; flowers in a 
short loose spike with large leaf-like bracts surpassing them; lip 
entire, wavy, produced below into a spur. 
1 . Galeorchis spectabilis (L.) Rydb. Showy Orchis. Stem 4-12 
in. high, fleshy, 5-angled; leaves with 1 or 2 scales below 
them, sometimes 8 in. long and 4 in. wide, but usually 
smaller, clammy to the touch; flowers in a short loose spike 
with large leaf-like bracts surpassing them, violet-purple 
mixed with lighter purple and white; lip whitish, divergent, 
entire, about as long as the petals. A plant with 2 large 
leaves surpassing the stem and' a spike of showy flowers. 
Grows in rich woods. Defiance, Sandusky, Cuyahoga, 
Medina, Portage, Wyandot, Stark, Columbiana, Miami, 
Clarke, Franklin, Licking, Greene, Fairfield, Clinton, Ross, 
Vinton, Hamilton, Clermont, and Gallia Counties. 
Perularia Lindl. 
Plant leafy -stemmed with a cluster of thick fibrous roots; 
flowers small, greenish, in a long open spike with long bracts; 
lip lanceolate with a tooth on each side at the base and a central 
tubercle at the middle of the base; spur slender, straight, longer 
than the lip, but shorter than the ovulary. 
1. Perularia flava (L.) Rydb. Tubercled Orchis. Stem smooth, 
bracted, 12-24 in. high, stout, leafy; leaves lanceolate or 
elliptic, acute or obtuse, 4-12 long; flowers greenish, in a 
long open spike with long bracts; lip lanceolate, with a tooth 
on each side at the base, and a central tubercle at the middle 
of the base. A sturdy plant with a leafy stem and small 
pale green flowers, growing in moist soil. Erie, Cuyahoga, 
Huron, Lake, Crawford, Knox, Franklin, and Gallia Counties 
Coeloglossum Hartman. 
Leafy plants with biennial 2-cleft tubers; flowers greenish, in 
a long, leafy -bracted spike; lip oblong, ^obtuse, J2-3, toothed at 
the apex ; spur much shorter than the lip. blunt, sac-like. 
