. 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. 3. Ibidium cernuum (L.) House. Nodding or drooping Ladies'-tresses. Fig. 1391. Ophrys cernua L. Sp. PI. 946. 1753. Spiranthes cernua L. C. Rich. Orch. Ann. 37. 1817. Gyrostachys cernua Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 664. 1891. Spiranthes odorata Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 467. 1840. Gyrostachys ochroleuca Rydb. in Britton, Man. 300. 1901. /. incurvum Jennings, Ann. Car
. 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. 3. Ibidium cernuum (L.) House. Nodding or drooping Ladies'-tresses. Fig. 1391. Ophrys cernua L. Sp. PI. 946. 1753. Spiranthes cernua L. C. Rich. Orch. Ann. 37. 1817. Gyrostachys cernua Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 664. 1891. Spiranthes odorata Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 467. 1840. Gyrostachys ochroleuca Rydb. in Britton, Man. 300. 1901. /. incurvum Jennings, Ann. Car. Mus. 3 : 483. 1906. /. cernuum House, Bull. Torr. Club 32: 381. 1905. Stem 6'-25' high (rarely taller), usually pubescent above, mostly bearing 2-6 acuminate bracts. Leaves nearly basal, linear-oblanceolate or linear, 3'-i4' long, the blade narrow, the petiole 2'-io' long; spike 4'-S' long, 6"-7" thick; flowers white or yellowish, fragrant, nodding or spreading, about 5" long, in 3 rows; lateral sepals free, the upper arching and connivent with the petals; lip oblong, or sometimes "ovate, the broad apex rounded, crenulate or crisped; callosities nipple-shaped, straight, hairy. In wet meadows and swamps, Newfoundland to On- tario, South Dakota, Florida and New Mexico. Wild tube-rose. Screw-auger. 4. Ibidium ovale (Lindl.) House. Small-flow- ered Ladies'-tresses. Fig. 1392. Spiranthes ovalis Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 466. 1840. 5". cernua parvifiora Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. Ed. 3, 488. 1897. Gyrostachys parvifiora Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 318. 1903. Spiranthes parvifiora Ames, Orch. 137. 1909. Ibidium ovale House, Muhlenbergia 1: 128. 1906. Stem 4'—i,s' tall, leafy below, minutely pubescent above. Leaves broadly linear to linear-oblong, l¥-6¥ long, or, the upper smaller; spike slender, compact, tapering upward, the bracts shorter than the flowers; flowers small, about 2" long, white, nodding; lateral sepals free, lanceolate; lip about 2"
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