Newf

Larger; leaves strongly white-reticulated; scape 6–12´ high, the numerous crowded flowers not one-sided; tip of the globular lip very short; otherwise like the preceding, and too near to it.—Rich woods, Newf. to Fla., west to Mich. and Minn. § 2.

Shrub 3–5° high; leaves wedge-lanceolate, serrate toward the apex, pale, later than the flowers; sterile catkins closely clustered; nuts in imbricated heads, 2-winged by the two thick ovate scales which coalesce with its base.—Wet borders of ponds, Newf. to N. Eng. and along the Great Lakes to Minn., south in the mountains to Va. 2.

Stem 1° high; leaves, etc., as in the last; flowers white, rather smaller; petals spatulate, usually slightly cut or toothed at the apex; lip ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, with the irregular capillary fringe of the margins usually shorter than its disk, one third the length of the spur.—Peat bogs and borders of ponds, Newf. to N. J., west to Mich. and Minn. July.—Var. holopétala, Torr., has narrower petals with the toothing obsolete, and the lip less fringed.

Leaves oblong or lanceolate, the uppermost passing into linear-lanceolate bracts; raceme cylindrical, densely many-flowered; lower sepals round-oval, obtuse; petals wedge-obovate or spatulate, denticulate above; divisions of the spreading lip broadly wedge-shaped, many-cleft into a short fringe.—Wet meadows and bogs, common; Newf. to N. C., west to Ind. and Minn. July, Aug.—Flowers short-pedicelled, crowded in a spike of 4–10´ in length, small, but very handsome, fragrant; lip short-stalked, barely ½´ broad and not so long; the middle lobe broadest and more closely fringed, but not so deeply cleft as the lateral ones.

Newf. to northern N. Y., west to Mich. and N. Minn.