WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Great Green Orchis (Habenana orhiculata). Orchis family. 
July, August. 
An orchis a foot or more high with two large round leaves 
lying flat on the ground. The flowers are whitish, with long 
spurs, in open raceme. The sepals are rounded, the petals 
lance-shaped, the lip blunt; there are bracts on the stem. 
Hooker's Orchis {H. Hookeri) is similar but the leaves are some- 
times raised from the ground, the stem has no bracts, the lip 
is pointed, the sepals narrower. Habena means rein, said to 
refer to the lip of some species (Gray). 
Dutchman's Breeches {Dicentra Cucullaria). Fumitory 
family. April, May. 
This perennial herb, from a bulb, bears a raceme of small 
flowers tipped with cream color and having a corolla with two 
spreading spurs three-fourths inch across. The leaves have 
slender stalks and are much divided. Woods. Its distribution 
is said to be from Nova Scotia west and south, but it is not 
generally distributed in eastern New England. Mathews states 
that he has never found it in New Hampshire, and it is not 
found, I think, in eastern Massachusetts. Squirrel Com 
{Dicentra canadensis) is similar, but the roots bear little tubers, 
and the spurs of the flowers are short and rounding. Generic 
name signifies twice and spur. 
Co\\c-xooi {Aletris farinosa) . Lily family. May to August. 
An upright perennial herb with slender, single stem (scape) 
with maximum height of three feet. The flowers (with cylin- 
drical perianth) are small, scurfy, tubular, in long, slender, 
spike-like raceme at the end of the stem. The leaves are pointed. 
Woods. Named from a grinder of corn, referring to the 
scurfiness. 
In the United States Dispensatory we find that the root is 
" small, crooked, branched, blackish externally, brown within 
and intensely bitter." 
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