Our Native Orchids
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ISBN13: 9780217526548
Paperback|9780217526548
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATED KEY TO THE GENERA OF ORCHIDS Flowers solitary or several, large and showy. Lip enlarged into a pouch. Anthers two, one on each side of column. Flowers several, purple and white or rose; one anther with two diverging anther sacs. Lip elongated into a spur, pollen masses prolonged into a stalk with a gland. I. Cypripedium P. 3. II. Orchis P. 19. III. Habenaria P. 24. Flowers small, greenish, white, purple or yellow; mostly in racemes or spikes; lip with spur at base; anther sacs diverging. Flowers single or in a loose raceme; leaves alternate or in a whorl; lip without a spur; anther stalked, attached to the back of the column; anther sacs parallel, poilinia without any stalk. column IV. POGONIA P. 65. Solitary rose-purple flower on a bracted stem; lip without sac or spur; column adhering at its base to lip; anther attached to column with two pollinia in each sac. S V. Arethusa p. 78. A rare plant with fibrous roots and stout, leafy stem. Flowers in a leafy bracted raceme, with sepals and petals all separate and nearly equal; no spur. Lip pinched in at the middle. VI. Epipactis P. 82. Slender herbs with close-pressed white or greenish white flowers arranged in one to three rows on a stalk that is usually twisted; leaves all at the base. Lip, without a spur, but spreading, crisped and cut. VII. Gyrostachys p. 87. Slender herbs rising from solid bulbs. Flowers in a long loose raceme, a single leaf unfolding after the flowers. Flowers green, nodding, with spurs twice as long as the flowers. XIV. Tipularia p. 145. Several purple pink flowers about one inch long, lip crested with yellow orange hairs. XV. Limodorum p. 147. Stout plant; leaves reduced to scales; coralloid root; large, brownish purple flower, thr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217526548 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217526543 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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