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Calopogon (This genus comprises four)

This genus comprises four closely-related species of hardy, terrestrial Orchids, natives of North America. To those described on p. 246, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. multiflorus (many-flowered). fl. amethyst-purple; stalk of the lip having on each side of the base an auricle, the broad, irregularly square, retuse, emarginate, anterior blade having at the base a tuft of golden-yellow, hairy lamellae, often purplish at base, and before these some purple calli; peduncle five-flowered. 1884.