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Orchis ciliaris L. Sp. Pl. 939 (1753). Mx. FI. ii. 156 (1803). 
Platanthera ciliaris, Lind\. Orchid., 292 (Aug. 1835). 
Var. ALBA (Mx). 
Orchis ciliaris, var. alba, Mx. F. ii. 156 (1803). 
O. blephariglottis, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 9 (1805). 
Platanthera blephariglottis, Torr. Fl. N. Y. ii. 277 (1843). 
Habenaria ciliaris, v. blephariglottis, Chap. Fl. 460 (1860). 
Var. HOLOPETALA (Lindl). 
Platanthera holopetala Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 291 (Aug,, 
1835). | 
Habenaria blephariglottis, Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 87 (1825). 
P. blephariglottis, v. holopetala, Torr. Fl. N.Y. ii. 277 (14843). 
In this connection it is a matter of interest to note an irregu- — 
lar or monstrous form of AH. ciliaris which was collected in the 
vicinity of New York during the last summer by Mr. Henry Og- 
den. The lip is either entire or imperfectly fringed and obovate, 
instead of being as in the normal form, long and deeply fringed 
and long ovate. In some of the flowers the anther cells are 4, in 
pairs, 2 parallel cells on one side, and 2 on the other; and in 
some cases there is another cell besides, back of one of the others, 
In some instances the lateral tubercle or swelling of the clinan- 
drium is mounted upon one of the cells, or partly displaces its 
- lower portion. Most of the flowers are entirely destitute of spurs. 
Some have spurs as long as the ovary, and a few have spurs not a 
quarter as long as the ovary. 
This species frequently produces only a leaf the first year, flow- 
ering the second year. As a result, the collector is often disap- 
pointed upon going to a locality and finding no flowers where he 
found an abundance the year before. I have detected a similar 
habit in other species. 
Habenaria flava—Dr. Asa Gray examined the Herbarium of 
Gronovius containing the plant upon which Linnzeus founded this 
species, and ascertained beyond a doubt that it is the same as that 
which has since been called Hadenaria virescens. (See Am. Jour. — 
Sci. & Arts, xxxvii. 307.) The history of its synonymy is a good _ 
illustration of the manner in which some plants under the old meth-_ = 
ods of nomenclature have travelled about from es” to post. Dr. = 
