. The orchids of New England; a popular monograph. Orchids. 64 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. Ichneumonidm at first surpassed all other visitors in observation and discernment, and were thus able to produce inconspicuous flowers which escaped the notice of other visitors. On the appearance of sand-wasps and bees these inconspicuous flowers were banished by competition to the less frequented localities (V, Lister a to shady woods)." Our larger species, Listera convallarioides, due ten days or so later in damp places along brooks, has a longer column than L. cor data, and the flowers are s
. The orchids of New England; a popular monograph. Orchids. 64 THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. Ichneumonidm at first surpassed all other visitors in observation and discernment, and were thus able to produce inconspicuous flowers which escaped the notice of other visitors. On the appearance of sand-wasps and bees these inconspicuous flowers were banished by competition to the less frequented localities (V, Lister a to shady woods)." Our larger species, Listera convallarioides, due ten days or so later in damp places along brooks, has a longer column than L. cor data, and the flowers are somewhat pubescent or downy. L. convallarioides, as I learn partly from the Report of the Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, has the following extended range: "Can- ada to North Carolina (rare in lower New England for some mysterious rea- son), westward to Rocky Mountains and Unalaska. Found in the East Hum- boldt Mountains at an elevation of 7,000 ; Both our species are so faintly 3 seed-vessels of same colored that it is almost absurd to speak 4 Flower of Listera conval- larioides (Anther removed) 0f them as having color at all, and they are so fragile, watery and translucent in substance that it is impossible to represent them in a sketch without exaggerating their size. I have grouped them with a species of Liparis, or Twayblade, L. Loeselii, a small, coarse herb with the greenish- yellow colors of the Listeras, and like them a dweller in wet places. In Liparis, which is a genus of the tribe Malaxideae, "the anther is attached to the apex of the elongated, incurved col- umn ; the 4 pollen-masses arranged in one row (2 to each cell) have no stalks, connecting tissues or ; These herbs have " solid ; The lip is spurless as in Listera ; and in L. Loss- ehi, whose flowers have a combative air like so many little drag-. Fig 18 1, 2 Flower of Liparis Lce- seln. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page ima
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