GOODYERA REPENS. CREEPING GOODYERA.
GOODYERA repens foliis radicalibus ovatts, labello petalisquö ovato-lanceolatis.
GOODYERA repens. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 198. Richard in Mém. du Mus,
vol. 4. p. 58. Hook. FI. Scot. P . I. p. 253.
N EO T T IA repens. Swartz de Orchid, p. 52. JVilld. Sp. PL Vol. 4. p, 76. Decand, Fl. Fr. ed. 3.
vol. 3. p. 258. Fl. Gall. Syn. p. 171. Pers, Syn. P i. vol. 2. p. 5 11.
SATYRIÜM repens. Linn. Sp. P L p. 1339- Huds. Angl. p. 387. Lightf. Scot. p. 520. t. 22.
With. Bot. A rr. ed. 4. Vol. 2. p. 31. (Ed. Fl. Dan. t, 812. Jacq. Fl. Austr. vol. 4.
t. 369- Hoffm. Germ, ed. 2. vol. 1. P . II. p. 176. Smith Fl. B rit, p. 930. Engl.
Bot. t. 289.
E PIPACTIS foliis petiolatis ovato-landeolatis, floribus tetrapetalis hirsutis.. Hall. Helv. n. 1295. G 22.
Class a n d Order. G Y N A N D R IA MONANDRIA.
[N atural Order. ORCHIDEAS, Juss,, Decand., Brown, Hoolc.]
Gen. Char. Corolla ringens, petalis exterioribus anticis labello infeme gibboso superne indiviso suppositis.
Columna libera. Pollen angulatum.
Gen. Char. Corolla ringent, with the two exterior or lateral segments of the perianth placed beneath the lip,
which is gibbous at the base, and undivided at the extremity. Column free. Pollen angular.
Radix perennis, crassiuscula, longe repens, tomentosa,
fibrosa, fusca.
Caulis spithamæus, erectus, teres, pubescens.
glabra ; inferiora petiolata, ovata, striata atque
reticulata, planiuscula ; superiora vaginata, an-
gustiora; suprema lanceolata vel lanceolato-su-
bulata, sessilia, bracteiformia.
Flores numerosi, pubescentes, albo-virescentes, in spi-
cam longiusculam, laxam dispositi, bracteati ;
bracteis lanceolatis, acuminatis, pubescentibus,
germine longioribus.
Periantiiium sex-partitum, ringens ; foliolis tribus exterioribus
subæqualibus, ovatis vel ovato-lanceo-
latis, concavis, intus pubescentibus ; trium inte-
riorum duobus superioribus minoribus glabris, supremo
unitis, sexto vel labello basi insigniter gibboso,
inflate, albo, superne. in ligulam recurvatum,
canaliculatam, desinente.
Columna brevissima.
Anthera sub apicem columns affixa, stigmati paral-
lela, ovato-rotundata, flava, dorso convexa, facie
plana, bilocularis, loculis longitudinaliter dehis-
centibus : Massæ poll inis flavæ, ovatæ, granulatæ,
apici stigmatis affix®, et cum eo deciduæ.
Stigma magnum, album, anticum, subquadratum, de-
mum bicorne.
Germen ovatum, sulcatum, leviter tortum, pubescens.
Root perennial, thickish, much inclined to creep, downy,
fibrous, brown.
Stem a span high, erect, rounded, pubescent.
Leaves glabrous; the lowest petiolated, ovate, striated
and reticulated, almost plane; the upper ones
sheathing, narrower; the uppermost lanceolate or
lanceolate-subulate, sessile, bracteiforin.
Flowers numerous, downy, greenish-white, collected
into a rather long lax spike, bracteated; the brae-
teas lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, longer than
the germen.
Perianth of six divisions, ringent, the three exterior
leaflets nearly equal, ovate or ovato-lanceolate,
concave, downy within, the two upper of the
three interior leaflets the smallest, glabrous, united
to the uppermost one, the sixth or the labellum
singularly gibbous at the base, inflated, white, terminating
at the extremity in a recurved channelled
ligule.
Column very short.
An ther fixed beneath the apex of the column, parallel
with the stigma, ovato-rotundate, yellow,
convex on the back, plane on the front, two-
celled, the cells opening longitudinally : Pollen
masses yellow', ovate, granulated, affixed to the
apex of the stigma, and falling off with it.
I Stigma large, white, placed in front, nearly square, at
length two-homed.
I Germen ovate, furrowed, slightly twisted, pubescent.
Fig. 1. Side view o f a flower. Fig. 2. Front view of the same. Fig. 3. Side view of the labellum. Fig. As. A
front view, and Fig. 5. a side view, o f the column of fructification, before the pollen masses have fallen from
the anther. Fig. 6. Front view of the column of fructification, the pollen masses having fallen from the anther,
and carried away a portion of the stigma. Figs. 7, 8. Pollen masses.—all more or less magnified.
This interesting little Orchideous plant is an inhabitant of old mossy woods in the alpine and principally northern
nations of Europe.—In the British dominions it is confined to Scotland, and very much to the remote parts
even of that country; so that few botanists have had the gratification of seeing it in its native wilds. The first authority
for its indigenous growth is that of D r. Hope, who found it in a wood opposite to Moy-hall, on the south
side o f the road to Inverness. Mr. Lightfoot and Dr. Stuart met with it in a similar situation, a wood called
Cadue at Dundonald by Little Loch Broom. Mr. Brodie communicated the specimens which are drawn and described
in English Botany from fir woods about his seat in Morayshire; whilst Mr. Shillinglaw has found it near
Dupplin, Perthshire; and Mr. Murray, Curator of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the woods of Culloden, near Inverness,
and in those of Gordon Castle and Scone.
The Goody era repens flowers in July and August, and bears cultivation tolerably well. I do not find the character
given by Mr. Brown of the shape of the labellum and petals of this species (labello petalisque lanceolatis)
to answer to my specimens, which appear to correspond much better with his character of the American G. pubescens
in these particulars; nor am I prepared to state the essential difference between these two individuals, having
never examined the latter in a living state. Richard says of them “ utraque species si reips& divers®, male a
Willdenovio fuerunt definit®.”