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-- 1. _The three sepals separate; stem leafy; flower solitary, drooping._

1. C. arietnum, R. Br. (RAM'S-HEAD L.) Stem slender (6--10' high); upper sepal ovate-lanceolate, pointed; the 2 lower and the petals linear and nearly alike (greenish-brown), rather longer than the red and whitish veiny lip (6” long), which is somewhat p.u.b.escent, especially within, and prolonged at the apex into a short blunt conical point; leaves 3 or 4, elliptical-lanceolate, nearly smooth.--Cold swamps and damp woods, Maine to N. Y., Mich. and Minn., and northward.

-- 2. _Two of the sepals united into one under the lip._

[*] _Stem leafy to the top, 1--3-flowered; lip slipper-shaped or roundish, much inflated, horizontal, and with a rounded open orifice._

[+] _Sepals and linear wavy-twisted petals brownish, pointed, longer than the lip._

2. C. candidum, Muhl. (SMALL WHITE LADY'S SLIPPER.) Slightly p.u.b.escent, 1-flowered; leaves lance-oblong, acute; petals and sepals greenish, purple-spotted; _sepals ovate-lanceolate; lip_ (not 1' long) _white_, striped with purple inside, flattish laterally, convex above; _sterile stamen lanceolate_.--Bogs, N. Y. and Penn. to Minn., Mo., and Ky.; rare.

May, June.

3. C. parviflrum, Salisb. (SMALLER YELLOW L.) Stem 1--2 high leaves oval, pointed; _sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate; lip flattish from above, bright yellow_ (1' long or less); sterile stamen triangular.--Bogs and low woods, Newf. to Ga., west to Minn. and E. Kan.

May, June.--Flowers fragrant; sepals and petals more brown-purple than in the next, into which it seems to pa.s.s.

4. C. p.u.b.escens, Willd. (LARGER YELLOW L.) Stem 2 high, p.u.b.escent, as are the broadly oval acute leaves; _sepals elongated-lanceolate; lip flattened laterally_, very convex and gibbous above, 1--2' long, _pale yellow_.--Bogs and low woods; same range as the last.

[+][+] _Sepals and petals plane, rounded, white, not longer than the lip._

5. C. spectabile, Swartz. (SHOWY L.) Downy, 2 high; leaves ovate, pointed; sepals round-ovate or orbicular, rather longer than the oblong petals; _lip much inflated, white, pink-purple_ in front (1' long); sterile stamen heart-ovate.--Peat-bogs, Maine and W. New Eng. to Minn.

and Mo., and south in the mountains to N. C. July.--The most beautiful of the genus.

[*][*] _Scape naked, 2-leaved at base, 1-flowered; sepals and petals greenish, shorter than the drooping lip, which has a closed fissure down its whole length in front._

6. C. acaule, Ait. (STEMLESS L.) Downy; leaves oblong; scape 8--12'

high, with a green bract at top; sepals oblong-lanceolate, pointed, nearly as long as the linear petals; lip obovoid or oblong, rose-purple (rarely white), nearly 2' long, veiny; sterile stamen rhomboid.--Dry or moist woods; Newf. to N. C., west to N. Ind., Mich., and Minn. May, June.

ORDER 111. BROMELIaCEae. (PINE-APPLE FAMILY.)

_Herbs (or scarcely woody plants, nearly all tropical), the greater part epiphytes, with persistent dry or fleshy and channelled crowded leaves, sheathing at the base, usually covered with scurf; 6-androus_; the 6-cleft perianth adherent to the ovary in the PINE-APPLE, etc., or free from it in

1. TILLaNDSIA, L. LONG MOSS.

Perianth plainly double, 6-parted; the 3 outer divisions (sepals) membranaceous; the 3 inner (petals) colored; all connivent below into a tube, spreading above, lanceolate. Stamens 6, hypogynous! or the alternate ones cohering with the base of the petals; anthers introrse.

Ovary free; style thread-shaped; stigmas 3. Capsule cartilaginous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved; the valves splitting into an inner and an outer layer. Seeds several or many in each cell, anatropous, club-shaped, pointed, raised on a long hairy-tufted stalk, like a coma.

Embryo small, at the base of copious alb.u.men.--Scurfy-leaved epiphytes.

(Named for _Prof. Tillands_ of Abo.)

1. T. usneodes, L. (COMMON LONG MOSS or BLACK MOSS.) Stems thread-shaped, branching, pendulous; leaves thread-shaped; peduncle short, 1-flowered; flower yellow.--East Sh.o.r.e, Va., south to Fla., and westward; growing on the branches of trees, forming long hanging tufts.

ORDER 112. HaeMODORaCEae. (BLOODWORT FAMILY.)

_Herbs, with fibrous roots, usually equitant leaves, and perfect 3--6-androus regular flowers, which are woolly or scurfy outside; the tube of the 6-lobed perianth coherent with the whole surface, or with merely the lower part, of the 3-celled ovary._--Anthers introrse. Style single, sometimes 3-partible; the 3 stigmas alternate with the cells of the ovary. Capsule crowned or enclosed by the persistent perianth, 3-celled, loculicidal, 3--many-seeded. Embryo small, in hard or fleshy alb.u.men. A small family; chiefly of the southern hemisphere.

[*] Ovary wholly adherent to the calyx-tube; style filiform; seeds peltate, amphitropous.