(A) Large Purple Fringed Orchis (Habenaria fim~ 
briata) is the largest and perhaps the most beautiful of 
the genus. The pale purple flowers are nearly twice as 
large as those of the last species; the lip is more deeply 
fringed. The densely flowered spike is about two inches 
in diameter and often is twelve inches long. The leafy 
stem attains heights of from 1 to 5 feet. It is a mag¬ 
nificent plant, the sight of which is well worth the in¬ 
conveniences necessary to visit its haunts. It grows in 
swamps throughout the U. S. and southern Canada. 
(B) Small Purple Fringed Orchis ( E. psycodes) 
has pale purplish flowers in a dense cylindrical spike 
terminating in a leafy stem, about 1 or 1 y 2 feet tall. 
The spreading flower-lip is 3-parted and fringed; sepals 
rounded, petals spatulate and slightly toothed. The 
leaves are lanceolate and, like those of the fringed 
orchids, grow smaller as they approach the top of the 
stem. Flowers in July and August in wet meadows 
or swamps, from Newfoundland to Manitoba and south¬ 
wards. 
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