. 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. 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
. 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. 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 long as the ovary, curved, clavate;'anther- sacs widely divergent, little separated; glands or- bicular, oblique. In moist meadows, New Jersey to Illinois, Missouri, Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee. Great purple orchis. 13. POGONIA Juss. Gen. PI. 65. 1789. Mostly low herbs, the flowers terminal, solitary, the leaves alternate. Sepals and petals separate, erect or ascending. Lip erect from the base of the column, spurless. Column elongated, club-shaped at the summit. Anther terminal, stalked, attached to the back of the column, its sacs parallel; pollinia 2, 1 in each sac, powdery-granular, without a caudicle. Stigma a flattened disk below the anther. Capsule oblong or ovoid, erect. [Greek, bearded,, from the bearded lip of the type species.] A few species of the north temperate zone; only the following known in North America. Type species : Arethusa ophioglossoides L. Sepals and petals nearly equal and alike; lip bearded. Sepals longer and narrower than the petals; lip not bearded. 1. P. ophioglossoides. 2. P. Please note that the
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