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POGONIA YERTICILLATA.
WHORLED-LEAVED POGONIA.
Gynandria Monandria, Linn. Orchidese, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Petals 5, distinct, without glands. Lip sessile, cucullate, internally crested. Pollen
farinaceous.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Leaves in fives, oblong-lanceolate, verticillate; stem one-flowered; the three exterior
petals very long, linear, the interior ones lanceolate; lip three-lobed, the
middle segment undulated. Willd.
P lant from twelve to fifteen inches high. Root branched, consisting
of several very long, fleshy fibres of a brown colour, running horizontally
near the surface of the earth. Stem simple, erect, glaucous,
terete, of a dull-purple colour for nearly its whole length, being whitish
below and bluish-green above. Leaves about five, collected in a single
whorl at the extremity of the stem, oblong-lanceolate, acute, of a yellow
green colour on both sides. Flower solitary, rarely two or three on
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