NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
1. THE EPIDENDRUM VENOSUM OF FLORIDA. 
BY WILLIAM TRELEASE, 
Occasional reference has been made to the occurrence of 
Epidendrum venosum, Lindley, in southern Florida,* the 
only other species of the genus commonly recognized as 
pertaining to that flora having been #. conopseum, 
Brown, until the recent appearance of the third edition of 
Dr. Chapman’s Flora, which adds #. Tampense, Lindl., 
E. cochleatum, L., E. umbellatum, Sw., and #. nocturnum, 
L., while Z. venosum has been dropped from the southern 
flora. 
In February 1893, while collecting along the St. John’s 
river, Mess. W. T. Swingle and Theo. Holm found some 
fine specimens of what has passed for #. venosum, which 
they sent to the Garden, where, subsequently, a number of 
other collections of the same species have been received 
and kept under observation for several years. All of these 
pertain to L. Tampense, Lindl.t 
Epidendrum Tampense was first collected on Tampa 
Bay, Florida, by Dr. Torrey, many years ago, and was 
found in Miami by Garber in 1877, and on the Hillsboro 
river by Curtiss (no. 2805). Within the last few years it 
has been collected at various points in the southern part 
of the State, and Mr. T. L. Mead informs me that at 
Oviedo (as is doubtless true at many other places), it is 
abundant. It belongs to Lindley’s subgenus Hncyclium, 
which has the stem enlarged into a pseudobulb, flowers not 
* e.g. Chapman, Flo. So. U. S. 1 ed. 455. American Agriculturist. 
88: 344. 1874. 
+ Lindley, Bot. Register, n. s. 10, under pl. 35. 1847; Folia Orchi- 
dacea, Epidendrum, no. 34, p. 12. 1853. Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. 
1889, p. 12. Chapman, Flo. So. U. 8. 3 ed. p. 480. 1897. 
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