[Illustration: =The Spikes of Habenaria.= (_Habenaria Andrewseii_ and _Habenaria psycodes_.)] 8.—HABENARIA FRAGRANS (Rydberg) Niles, 1901-1903[72] FRAGRANT SLENDER BOG-ORCHIS The specific name, _fragrans_, refers to the exquisite fragrance of this species, which is so closely allied with _H. dilatata_ and of which it appears to be a form. Slender bogland orchid, with fleshy-fibrous roots. July. =Flowers= small, pure white, very fragrant; in a slender spiked raceme. =Labellum= narrowly linear, dilated at the base, obtuse, shorter than the curved filiform spur; otherwise as the preceding species. =Sepals= lanceolate, acutish, strongly striate. =Stem= very slender and leafy above, 8-12 inches high. =Leaves= linear, several. _Continental Range_—Reported from a single station in Vermont. Slender forms of _H. dilatata_, very fragrant and slightly so, are present in the bogs of Pownal, Vermont, and North Adams, Massachusetts, where the writer has collected them, believing that they were forms brought about by the intergrading of the bogland _Habenarias_ closely associated. Species of _Habenaria_ appear to produce natural hybrids readily.[73] _New England Range_—Vermont. 9.—HABENARIA BRACTEATA (Willdenow) R. Brown, 1805-1813 LONG BRACTED ORCHIS The specific name, _bracteata_, refers to the long bracts, subtending the seed-capsules of this species. A slender bracted bogland orchid, with fleshy-fibrous roots. May 8th-July 14th-August 12th. =Flowers= small, greenish, in a loosely flowered spike, 3-5 inches long, subtended by long bracts. =Labellum= long, spatulate 2-3 toothed or lobed, twice as long as sac-like spur. =Sepals= ovate-lanceolate, spreading, dilated, at base; =petals= very narrow, threadlike. =Stem= leafy, slender, or stout, 6 inches to 2 feet high. =Leaves= lanceolate, oval. _Continental Range_—From Sitka and Unalaska to the Great Plains, approaching the Rocky Mountains in latitude 55° North; southward throughout New England to North Carolina; westward to Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana. _New England Range_—Maine, common; New Hampshire, common; Vermont, common; Massachusetts, frequent; Rhode Island, rare; Connecticut, rather rare. 10.—HABENARIA CLAVELLATA (Michaux) Sprengel, 1803-1826 SMALL YELLOWISH BOG-ORCHIS—SMALL WOOD-ORCHIS The specific name, _clavellata_, refers to the club-shaped appendages of stigma or clavate spur attached to the flowers of this species. A small bogland or woodland orchid, with fibrous roots. May 17th (Missouri), June (Alabama); July 15th-August (Maine). =Flowers= small greenish-yellow, in a loosely flowered spike ½-2 inches long. =Labellum= dilated, 3-toothed at apex; spur longer than ovary, clavate. =Sepals= and =petals= ovate. =Stem= 8-18 inches high. =Leaf= 1, near the base, 1-3 bracts above. _Continental Range_—From Lake Huron, Newfoundland, southward to Alabama; westward to Indiana, and Missouri. Ascends 6000 feet altitude in North Carolina.