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RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 128 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.3in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: . . . about one half the length of the ovarium, obtuse or somewhat acute and incurved. The size of the plant is quite variable. It often occurs 6--12 inches in height, with a somewhat ovate or oblong spike of flowers. In this state it agrees entirely with specimens of H. hyperborea collected in the arctic regions of America by Dr. Richardson. In favourable situations it not unfrequently attains the height of 2 or 3 feet, with a virgate spike 6--8 inches in length, and in this state is the H. dilatata of most American botanists. 27. H. Hekbiola, R. Brown, in Hort. Kew. V. p. 193. Orchis herbiola, Pursh. Fl. II. App. p. 743. Watertown, Jefferson county. Flowers in June. Obs. Flowers greenish-yellow. Lip oblong, obtuse, bidentate at the base, with a projecting tooth on the palate. 28. Cypripedium Arietinum, R. Brown in Hort. Kew. Pursh, Fl. II. p. 595. Arietinum Americanum, Beck, Fl. N. fy Middle States, p. 352. Near Oneida Lake. SMILACEJE. 29. Streptopus Amplexifolus, De Cand. Fl. Fran in. p. 174. 8. Americanus (Ram. if Schult. VII. p. 311. ); stigmate fere integro; pedunculis supra medium geniculatis. S. distorts, Michx. Fl. I. p. 200. Torrey, Fl. I. p. 353. In deep swamps near Utica. JUNCEJE. 30. Juncus Stygius, Linn. Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 215. Wahl. Fl. Suec. 1. p. 213. In an extensive sphagnous swamp bordering Perch Lake, Jefferson county: August. This species has not previously been known as a native of North America. 31. J. Setaceus, Rostkow, Jwc. p. 13. tab. 1. Torrey, Fl. 1. p. 360. Shore of Lake Ontario, near Sacketts Harbour. 32. J. Echinatus, Muhl. Gram. p. 207. Ett. Bot. S. Car. If Georgia, 1. p. 410. With the preceding; perhaps not distinct from J. polycephaliu, Michx. PODOSTEMEJE. 33. PODOSTEMON CERATOPHYLLUM, Michx. Ft. II. p. 165. tab. 44. In flow. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<