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HABENARIA bifolia.
Smaller Butterfly Orchis.
G YN A N D R IA Monandria.
Gen. Char. Flower ringent. Lip spurred. Glands
of the pollen masses naked, distant. Ovarium
twisted.
Spec. Char. Spur twice as long as the ovarium,
subclavate; lip linear, entire ; the upper petals
connivent, obtuse. Anther oblong, truncate,
with its cells parallel.
*Sy«.Habenaria bifolia.Bab. in Linn.Trans, v. 17.463.
Platanthera bifolia. “ Richard”Koch. Syn. FI.
Germ. 690.
PI. bifolia, var. brachyglossa. Lindl. Syn. ed. 2.
330. Orchid. 285.
PI. brachyglossa. Reich. Icon. t. 852. FI. Ex-
curs. IVo. 817. h.
Orchis bifolia. Linn. Herb.—Sp. PL 1331. Huds.
FI. Ang. 333. Sw. in Sven. Bot. t. 314.
O. bifolia (3. Sm. Herb. ; FI. Brit. v. 3. 918. Eng.
FI. vA . 9.
O. alba bifolia minor calcari oblongo. Ray, Syn.
ed. 2. 238.
Satyrium bifolium. Wahl. FI. Suec. 558.
A careful examination of the Linnasan Herbarium has
proved that this plant is the true O. bifolia of the Sp. PL
and the species published under that denomination in
Eng. Bot. t. 22. is now universally considered distinct, and
has received the name of H . chlorantha.
The tubers of the root of our plant terminate each in a
long fibrous point. Stem angular, rising from two or rare