Sarothra hypericoides.
the ground, and invested with minute scale-like leaves, like the
branches. Flowers alternate, numerous, sessile, the inflorescence beginning
below and proceeding upwards. Flowers small, yellow, the
petals seldom expanded after mid-day sun. Time of flowering July
and August. Common every where throughout the Union.
The figure is the size of nature.
MALAXIS OPHIOGLOSSIOIDES.
ADDER-TONGUE MALAXIS. ONE-LEAVED MALAXIS.
Gynandria Monogynia, Linn. Orchidese, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Petals S, narrower than the lip, spreading or deflected. Lip flattened, undivided,
sessile, (mostly situate behind.) Column porrected. Pollinia 4, parallel, affixed
to the summit of the stigma. Nutt.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
M. one leaf, ovate, amplexicaule; scape five-angular, lip bifid at the apex. Willd.
SYNONYM.
M alax] f; unifolia, Mich.
Root a double bulb, invested with a rugged sheath, and furnished
with a few radicles from the lower part. Stem four or five-angled,
erect, garnished with a foliaceous sheath near the root, and a single,