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Title: The orchids of New England; a popular monograph
Identifier: CUbiodiversity465857 (find matches)
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Baldwin, Henry, 1846-1911
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: New York, J. Wiley
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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THE ORCHIDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 89 The Large Coral-root, C. multiflora, shows itself in dry v/oods about this time, in Vermont, dull pink, purple and yellow shading into each other on its scape and blossoms, and a decided knob borne on the ovary answering to a spur. This species is found in Washington Territory and California, as well as in the Northern States and Canada, and it was found in one locality at an elevation of 7,000 feet by the explorers of the 40th Parallel, their botanical report describing it as flowering in July, and having " sepals and petals strongly veined." Our New England woods bring forth at the same time another parasitic plant, puzzlingly like a Coral-root to the young collector, and this, known as Epiphe- gus or Beech-drops, is a stiff, unhappy look- ing thing, which, if it really masquerades as an Orchid, quite overdoes the business by branching into a low shrub and blooming more profusely than Multiflora even. Having spoken rather disparagingly of the Coral-roots, I scarcely know how to de- scribe or to make my finest pointed pencil flatter the One-leaved Adder's Mouth, Mi- ;§ crostylis monophyllos, or the other species, coming later in July, M. ophioglossoides ; di- FiG.26.—adders'mouths. Microstylis ophioglossoi- mmutive bulbous herbs that stagger under des. , 1 • • ,-r . •. 1 T-rn^ . t . Microstylis monophyllos. their scientific titles. Wholly attired in green, .and odorless, they are well concealed in their swamps and wet forests, but to the tiny gnats and flies that must fer- tilize them they are fully as important as the gigantic Lady's Slipper that may overshadow them is to its bee. Here, in each flower, are spreading sepals and petals ; a long, round column with an erect anther; 4 waxy pollen-masses in one row. The coat of arms, though small, is legitimately dis-
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