We cannot agree with Mr. Nuttall in separating this 
plant from the genus Pogonia, with which it, in our judg- 
ment, agrees in all essential particulars. From Arethusa 
it is well distinguished by the segments of the flower 
being all distinct, and having a nearly equal insertion. 
This species seems to be distributed over nearly all 
North America, from Canada to Georgia. Mr. Nut- 
tall says it is parasitic round the roots of beech trees 
from New York to Kentucky, and that he has also found 
it in Canada. Our own specimens were collected near — 
the Alleghany River, by Mr. Goldie. 
A small plant, scarcely a span high, naked, simple. 
Stem erect, tinged with red, angular, bulbous at base. 
Leaves 3 or 4, small, ovate, 3-nerved, sheathing, edged 
with red. Flowers in the axille of the upper leaves 2-3, 
stalked, at first drooping, afterwards erect. Ovary 3-cor- 
nered, or unequally 6-angled; the angles edged. Peri- 
anthium ringent, with white, pinkish, distinct divisions; 
outer linear spreading, inner obl. lanceolate, erect, stand-. 
ing on each side of the back of the columna. Jip white, 
3-lobed, cucullate, clawed, jointed with the column, 
and parallel with it; lateral lobes small, erect; inter- 
mediate ovate, rounded, crisp, spreading, with a green 
eranular disk. Column distinct, elongated, a little shorter 
than the lateral lobes of lip, $-round, spatulate; gynizus 
elliptical, vaulted upwards by the inflexed edges. Anther 
terminal, sub-erect, crested, fleshy, 2-celled, parallel with 
the gynizus ; valves purple, membranous. Pollen-masses 2, 
furrowed by a longitudinal line, linear, uniform, powdery, 
formed of angular particles. ; 
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