Identifier: nativeflowersfer01meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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The time may come when there willbe circumstantial evidence sufficient to answer these questions,and the earnest attention which they command among scientificmen at the present time springs from the belief that it willeventually be possible to answer them satisfactorily. Our plant has absolutely no common name, and by way ofrectifying this omission we have ventured to call it CanbysMountain-Lover, for reasons which must have become apparentto the reader in the course of this article. Explanation ok the Plate.— i. Main brancli, with secondary brandies, showing thedenticulation of the leaves. — 2. ISranchlct of the second growth, witli entire leaves, inflower ill spring. — 3. Piower magnified, showing the position of the anthers, and thesymmetrical arrangement of all the parts. Vol. I Plate 45.
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Spiranthes CERNUA. L.iRAn.J A; COMPiVNV, BOSTON. SPIRANTHES CERNUA. DROOPING-FLOWERED LADIES TRACES. NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEyE. Spiranthes CERNUA, Richard. — Stem leafy below and leafy bracted above, six to twentyinches high; leaves linear-lanceolate, the lowest elongated, four to twelve inches long,two to four lines wide; spike cylindrical, rather dense, two to five inches long, and withthe flowers either pubescent or nearly smooth; perianth horizontal or recurving, thelower sepals not upturned or connivent with the upper; lip oblong and very obtuse whenoutspread, but conduplicate or the margins much incurved, wavy-crisped above themiddle, especially at the flatfish and recurved-spreading apex, the callosities at the baseprominent, nipple-shaped, somewhat hairy; gland of the stigma linear, in a long andvery slender beak. (Grays Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. Seealso Woods Class-Book of Botany.) HE plants now called Spiranthes were placed in thegenus Ophrys by

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