468 
-by Linnzus. In Sp. Pl. 954, he mentions two forms: “a S. Ber- — 
mudiana,’ which he says grows in Virginia, and «8 S. Bermudien- 
sts,’ which is attributed to the Bermudas. The first is founded 
upon Plukenet’s t. 61, f. 1, and Dillenius’ t. 41, f. 49, both of 
which are evidently our plant, and the habitat cited is Virginia. 
It differs very essentially from S. Bermudiense, the Bermudan 
plant. Linnzeus apparently had not seen this latter plant, as no 
specimen of it is preserved in his Herbarium (deste Hemsley, Brit. 
Journ. Bot. xxii. 109). 
As to the question whether there are two or more species in the 
Atlantic States, I am very well satisfied after a careful study of all 
the forms that so far we cannot be sure of more than one. The 
distinctions made between S. angustifolium, Mill. and S. anceps, 
.Cav.do not seem to hold. Both have from one to several pedun- 
cles, and both have seeds nearly smooth, faintly and deeply pitted. 
Abundant specimens of both, contained in the Herbarium of Co- 
lumbia College, as well as specimens collected fresh in the vicin- 
ity of the city of New York, show this to be the fact. 
S. mucronatum, Mx, is merely a narrow-winged form of S. 
Bermudianum. It seems to me that Dr. Asa Gray, in the first 
edition of his Manual, named the plant correctly, regarding anceps 
and mucronatum merely as forms of S. Bermudianum. 
The synonymy will stand as follows: 
S. Bermudianum, L. Sp. Pl. 954 (175 3). 
S. angustifolium, Mill. Dict. (1768). 
S. anceps, Cav. Diss. 6, 345, t. 190, f. 2 (1788). 
S. gramineum, Curtis, Bot. Mag. t. 464 (1799)- 
S. mucronatum, Mx. FI. ii. 33 (1803). 
ORCHIDACEZ. 
In an article contained in the BULLETIN OF THE TORREY Bo- 
TANICAL CLUB, xx. 31, the writer maintained the essential identity 
of Habenaria ciliaris (L.) R. Br. and Hadenaria blephariglottis 
(Willd.) Torr. 
On the 23d of last July I had a good opportunity to compare — 
the two, then in flower, growing side by side on Staten Island, 
New York.. A critical study of the plants in fresh blossom has 
-led me to modify my opinion to some ‘extent. The thing which . | 
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