. 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 17. ORCHID FAMILY. 56,3. 1. Limodorum tuberosum L. Grass-pink. Calopogon. Fig. 1387. Limodorum tuberosum L. Sp. PI, 950. 1753. Cymbidium pulchellum Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 105. 1805. Calopogon pulchellum R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed; 2, 5: 204. 1813. Scape slender, naked, l°-ij° high. Leaf linear- lanceolate, 8-12' long, 3"-io" wide, sheathing, with s
. 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 17. ORCHID FAMILY. 56,3. 1. Limodorum tuberosum L. Grass-pink. Calopogon. Fig. 1387. Limodorum tuberosum L. Sp. PI, 950. 1753. Cymbidium pulchellum Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 105. 1805. Calopogon pulchellum R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. Ed; 2, 5: 204. 1813. Scape slender, naked, l°-ij° high. Leaf linear- lanceolate, 8-12' long, 3"-io" wide, sheathing, with several scales below it;, spike 4'-is' long, 3-15-flow- ered; flowers about 1' long, purplish pink, subtended by small acute bracts; sepals obliquely ovate-lanceo- late, acute, about 10" long; petals similar; column incurved; anther-sacs parallel, attached by a slender thread to the back of the column; lip as long as the column, broadly triangular at the apex, crested along the face with yellow, orange and rose-colored hairs; capsule oblong, nearly erect. In bogs and meadows, Newfoundland to Ontario and Minnesota, south to Florida and Missouri. Bearded- pink. Swamp-pink. June-July. 18. SERAPIAS L. Sp. PI. 949. 1753. [Epipactis (Hall.) Zinn, Cat. PI. Hort. Goett. 85. 1757.] Tall stout herbs with fibrous roots and simple leafy stems. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, plicate, clasping. Flowers leafy-bracted, in terminal racemes. Sepals and petals all separate. Spur none. Lip free, sessile, broad, concave below, constricted near the middle, the upper portion dilated and petal-like. Column short, erect. Anther operculate, borne on the margin of the clinandrium, erect, ovate or semiglobose, its sacs contiguous. Pollinia 2-parted, granulose, becoming attached to the glandular beak of the stigma. Capsule oblong, beakless. [Named for Serapis, an Egyptian deity.] About 10 species, widely distributed. Besides the following typical species, another occurs in the western United States. i.
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