LlMNORCHIS AND PlPERIA NORTH OF MEXICO 



629 



Fischer in Kamtchatka. The type is in Lindley's herbarium and 

 a cotype in Torrey's. The Unalaska specimen also collected by 

 Fischer, I cannot distinguish from the Asiatic. 



Type: "In Kamtchatka, Fischer (ha/?, s. sp. comm. eel. Pres- 



cotty 



Asia : Kamtchatka, Fischer, ex. herb. Lindley. 

 Alaska : Unalaschca, Fischer. 



§ Arizonicae : Rather stout, 5-7 dm. high : spike long and lax : 

 flowers light greenish ; lip linear, not at all dilated at the base ; 

 spur filiform, almost twice as long as the lip ; connective narrow. 



20. Limnorchis Arizonica sp. no v. 



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Stem tall, leafy : lower leaves oblong, about 5 cm. long, obtuse, 

 the middle and upper ones linear, the former 2-3 dm. long, 2-3 

 cm. wide : spike slender, lax, many-flowered 

 1.5-3 cm - l° n g ; bracts linear-lanceolate, the 

 lower slightly longer than the flowers : these 

 12-15 mm - long, greenish or purplish : upper 

 sepal broadly ovate, 3 

 ones ovate- lanceolate : petals lanceolate, acute, 



4 mm. long ; lateral 



slightly 



shorter than the upper sepal, 4-5 

 mm. long. (Fig. 21.) 



This species resembles somewhat both L. 



^parsifli 



From the former 



Fig. 21. 



it is easily distinguished by the long slender spur and from the 

 latter by the many-flowered spikes, smaller flowers and narrow 

 connective. It grows in rich canons of Arizona. 



Arizona: 1891, Nealley (type in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); 



Mts 



Wilcox ; Weber Creek, 1887, E. A. Mearns, IJJ. 



§ Sparsiflorae : Plant slender, light green : spike elongated : 

 flowers greenish with strongly reflexed sepals ; lip linear ; spur 

 slender, much longer than the lip ; connective very broad : leaves 

 normal. 



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2 1 . Limnorchis 



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Platanthcra hyp 



Kraenzl 



Orch. 



Gen. et Sp. 640, in part. 1899 ; not P. leucostachys Lindl. 



Stem strict, 3-4 dm. high, light colored, few leaved : leaves 

 Hnear-lanceolate, attenuate, slightly falcate, 1-1.5 dm. long, 1-1.5 

 cm. wide : spike short and not very lax ; bracts lanceolate, 



