. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 466 Orchidacetr. depth of about 2 feet of water. It belongs to a small order called Juncaginacece, distingaiished from Alismacece by the apetalous bracteate flowers. OuDEE YI.—ORCHIDACE^. Terrestrial herbs with tuberous or fascicled roots and sheathing radical or sessile cauline leaves; or, as in most of the tropical species, epiphytes, with enlarged st
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. 466 Orchidacetr. depth of about 2 feet of water. It belongs to a small order called Juncaginacece, distingaiished from Alismacece by the apetalous bracteate flowers. OuDEE YI.—ORCHIDACE^. Terrestrial herbs with tuberous or fascicled roots and sheathing radical or sessile cauline leaves; or, as in most of the tropical species, epiphytes, with enlarged stems called pseudo-bulbs. Flowers solitary, spicate, racemose or paniculate. Perianth coloured, superior, composed of 6 irregular segments. The 3 outer are similar, and also the 2 lateral inner, whilst the lower inner segment, usually termed the labellum, assumes a variety of curious forms, and is often spurred at the base. Stamens and style confluent. Anther 1 and opposite the lip, or (in Cypn- pcdiurn) 2 and opposite the lateral inner lobes of the perianth; pollen cohering in 2, 4, or 8 waxy or granu- liferous masses. Fruit a 1-celled 3-valved inferior twisted capsule, containing numerous very minute seeds attached to the valves. This order includes upwards of 400 genera comprising 3,000 species, abounding in all climates except the extreme cold. We have about 40 indigenous species belonging to 18 different genera. Like the majority of the terrestrial species they are more curious than beautiful, and as they hardly come within our limits, and more space than we can afford would be required to give intelligible de- scriptions, we must be content with mentioning the names of a few of the more interesting species. Fore- most come the common Spring- flowering species of Orchis, 0. mas- cula and Morio which throw up their spikes of purplish flowers from April till June. The handsomest perhaps of the genus is 0. pyramidalis which has rosy-crimson. Fig. 226. Cypripedium Calceolus.
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