LlMNORCHIS AND PlPERIA NORTH OF MEXICO G39 



part, as to synonym. 1900 ; not Reichenb. 1 88 1 ; Piperia elongata 



Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 270. 1901. 



Stem slender, strict, 4-7 dm. high : tuber ellipsoid, about 2 cm. 

 long, 1 cm. in diameter : basal leaves 2 or 3 ; blades lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate or rarely oval, acute or 

 obtuse, 8-15 cm. long, 1-3, sometimes 

 even 5 cm. wide ; stem-leaves much re- 

 duced, lanceolate, acuminate, 5-10 mm. 

 long : spike long and usually lax, 1 . 5-3 

 dm. long ; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 

 from half to fully as long as the flowers : 

 these greenish-white, about 1 cm. long : 

 .sepals about 5 mm. long ; the upper 

 lanceolate, acute ; the lateral ones 

 linear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse: Fig. 31. 



petals lanceolate, acute ; blade of the 



lip broadly or ovate-lanceolate, slightly hastate and truncate at 

 the base ; median ridge rather indistinct ; spur filiform, 10-12 mm., 

 about two and a half times as long as the lip and longer than the 

 ovary. (Fig. 31.) 



Type: "In America boreal i occidental!, Douglas (liab. s. sp. 



eomm. Soc. Hort.)" 



British Columbia: Vancouver Island, 1887 \ John Macaun. 

 Washington: W. Klickitat county, 1885, W. N. Suksdorf. 

 Oregon: Grave Creek Hills, 1887, Thomas Howell; 1871, 



in Halt, 



Idaho : 



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168 ; Priest River valley, 134; Kootenai county, 1887, /. H. 

 Sandberg; Wiessner's Peak, 1892, Sandbag, MacDougal & 



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California: Santa Lucia Mountains, 1898, R. A. Plaskett, 



167 ; 1872, Mrs. Bancroft. 



7. 1 Piperia longispica (Durand) 



1855. 



Stem stout, 3-7 dm. high, more or less leafy below : tuber 

 ellipsoid, 3-4 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. thick, basal leaves and lower 

 stem leaves 2-4, lanceolate, acute, 1-1.5 dm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide » 

 withering about the time of anthesis : upper stem leaves reduced, 

 1-3 cm. long, lanceolate : spike many-flowered, but not dense, 1-3 

 dm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, .5-1 cm. long, acuminate: 

 flowers greenish, about 1.5 cm. long: upper sepal ovate, obtuse. 



