. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 12. ORCHID FAMILY. 559 7. Blephariglottis psycodes (L.) Rydb. Smaller Purple-fringed Orchis. Fig. 1379. Orchis psycodes L. Sp. PI. 943. 1753. Orchis fimbriates Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 297. 1789. Habenaria psycodes Spreng. Syst. 3 : 693. 1826. Blephariglottis psycodes Rydb. in Britton, Man. 296. 1901. Stem rather slender, i°-3° high. Leaves oval, elliptic or l
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 12. ORCHID FAMILY. 559 7. Blephariglottis psycodes (L.) Rydb. Smaller Purple-fringed Orchis. Fig. 1379. Orchis psycodes L. Sp. PI. 943. 1753. Orchis fimbriates Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 : 297. 1789. Habenaria psycodes Spreng. Syst. 3 : 693. 1826. Blephariglottis psycodes Rydb. in Britton, Man. 296. 1901. Stem rather slender, i°-3° high. Leaves oval, elliptic or lanceolate, 2'-io' long, 8"-3' wide, the upper smaller; raceme 2-6' long, i'-ii' thick, loosely or densely several-many-flowered; flowers lilac, rarely white, fragrant; lower sepals ovate, obtuse, about 4" long, the upper one a little narrower; petals oblong or oblanceolate, toothed on the upper margin; lip 3-parted, 4"-6" broad, the segments fan-shaped and copiously fringed, the fringe of the middle seg- ment shorter than that of the lateral ones; spur somewhat clavate at the apex, about 8" long, longer than the ovary. In meadows, swamps and wet woods, Newfoundland to_ Minnesota, North Carolina and Tennessee. Pink- fringed or flaming-orchis. Soldier's-plume. 8. Blephariglottis peramoena (A. Gray) Rydb. Fringeless Purple Orchis. Fig. 1380. Orchis fissa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 589. 1814. Not Willd. 1805. H. peramoena A. Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. 38: 310. 1840. B. peramoena Rydb. in Britton, Man. 297. 1901. Stem i°-2i° high. Leaves elliptic or lanceolate, 4'-8' long, i'-ii' wide, the upper gradually smaller; spike 2'-7' long, i'-2i' thick, many-flowered; flowers showy, violet-purple; lateral sepals round-ovate, Z"-4t" long, the upper one smaller; petals smaller, round-obovate, clawed, entire, or slightly erose; lip 7"-io" long, 3-parted, the segments fan-shaped, cut- toothed, not fringed, the middle one 2-lobed; spur about as lo
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