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HABENARIA fimbriata. 
Purple fringed Habenaria. 
aces 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrncHIpEem. Jussieu gen. 64. 
Orcuipex. Brown prod. 1. 309. Sect. I. Anthera adnata 
subterminalis persistens. Pollinis masse & lobulis angulatis elasticé coh- 
rentibus; basi affixes. Id. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5. 188. 
HABENARTIA. Cor. ingens, petalis 3-v. 5 in galeam conniventibus, 
Labellum basi subtis calearatum v. subsaccatum. Anthera terminalis, 
loculis adnatis, basibus quandoque solutis elongatis. Masse pollinis pedi- 
cellate, pedicellis singulis basi glandule respondenti nude insertis. Brown 
prod. 1. 312. 
EGR 
Div. Loculis antherarum columne juata apicem longitudinaliter adnatis. 
H. fimbriata, cornu filiformi germine longiore, Jabello tripartito laciniis 
cuneiformibus fimbriatis. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed.2.5.193. 
Orchis fimbriata. Hort. Kew. 3.297. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 39. Pursh amer. 
sept. 2. 588. : 
Radix fasciculata. Caulis erectus saber ex ancipitt acuté tetragonus. 
Folia caulina nonnulla (3-5) alterna sessilia oblonga acuta glabra integerrima 
nervosa carinata, basi vaginaniia biuncialia. Spica ovato-oblonga, multiflora. 
Flores @ ceruleo purpurascentes. Bractex lanceolate nervose germinibus 
paulo longiores. Petala quinque plana longitudine @qualia trilinearia, su- 
premum seu dorsale ovatum obtusum erectum, lateralia exteriora ovata acuta 
patentissima, lateralia interiora oblonga obtusa justa petalum dorsale erecta, 
infra medium dilatata sigue denticulata, basi attenuata. Labellum petalis 
paulo longius tripartitum, lacinie late cuneiformes e@quales plane ad medium 
subdivise in cilias subulatas, laterales divaricate, intermedia patens. Germen 
semiunciale, Solander in Hort. Kew. 3. 297. 
Native of North America; where it is found in low 
meadows and high mountain bogs from Newfoundland to 
Pensylvania. Introduced by Dr. W. Pitcairn in 1777. 
The drawing was taken at Mr. Knight’s nursery, in the 
King’s Road, Little Chelsea; and affords, we believe, the 
only representation of the species yet published. 
The feature, mainly relied upon by Mr. Brown for the 
technical distinction of the present genus from Orcuis, is, 
the circumstance of the glandular supports of the pollen- 
masses being naked or uncovered in this, not enclosed within 
the case or hood of the anther as in that. Some of the species 
are remarkable for the elongation of the detached bases of 
the cells of the anther-case, and have suggested the generic 
