. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 5. CAlOPdGON R. Br. Flowers in a loose raceme, resupinate. Sepals and petals spreading, distinct. Lip linear-oblong at base, dilated and bearded above vrith numerous clavate hairs, papillose at the apex. Column free, slender, winged at the summit; anther terminal, operculate; pollen-masses 4 (2 in each anther-cell); pollen- grains connected by filaments. Scape from a solid bulb, sheathed below by the base of the solitary grass-like leaf, naked a
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 5. CAlOPdGON R. Br. Flowers in a loose raceme, resupinate. Sepals and petals spreading, distinct. Lip linear-oblong at base, dilated and bearded above vrith numerous clavate hairs, papillose at the apex. Column free, slender, winged at the summit; anther terminal, operculate; pollen-masses 4 (2 in each anther-cell); pollen- grains connected by filaments. Scape from a solid bulb, sheathed below by the base of the solitary grass-like leaf, naked above. (Name composed of xaXds, beautiful, and -n-diyav, beard, from the bearded lip.) Limodokcm L., in part. 1. C. pulch^llus (Sw.) R. Br. Plant 15-40 cm. high ; raceme 4-12-flowered; flowers magenta-crimson, rarely white ; lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, falcate, upper sepal narrower; petals lanceolate, obtuse, constricted near the middle; lip as if hinged at base, its hairs yellow and magentarcrimson. — In open bogs and meadows, Nfd. to Fla., w. to Minn, and Mo. July (in our range). e. ARETHtrSA [Gronov.] L. Flowers ringent. Sepals and petals nearly alike, erect, united at base, arch- ing over the column. Lip partly erect, the apical half abruptly recurved. Col- umn adherent to the lip, dilated above, petal-like ; anther lid-like, attached by a well defined membrane, 2-celled ; pollen-masses 2 in each cell of the anther, powdery, granular. — Scape smooth from a solid white or greenish bulb. Leaf solitary, linear, nerved, hidden in the sheaths of the scape, protruding after the flower opens. (Named for the nymph Arethusa.) 1. A. bulbbsa L. Plant 10-25 cm. high from an ovoid bulb; scapfe termi- nated by a solitary flower era. long, rarely 2-flowered ; sepals and petals magenta-pink, rarely white, the former oblong, acute or obtuse, the lateral ones falcate, the petals oblong, obtuse or obscurely pointed; lip oblong, narrowed toward the base, with 3-5 fringed yellow o
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