640 



Rydberg : The American Species of 



about 5 mm. long ; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse : petals 

 broadly lanceolate ; blade of the lip ovate-hastate, distinctly 



auricled, and truncate at the base ; 



spur filiform, two and a half times as 



long as the lip. (Fi 



S- 



«5 



2-) 



I have not seen the type of Gym- 



nadenia 



!/>. 



which was de- 



fr 



scribed from a fragmentary specimen 

 collected by Pratten, r. e., it consisted 

 only of the upper portion without any 

 leaves. Durand's species has been re- 

 garded as P. Unalaschensis but this 

 cannot be so, for Gymnadenia long- 

 was described as having a spur longer than the ovary, 



Fig. 32. 



which throws it out of P m Unalaschensis. As 



tptop 



or the species described here. As this is the only species with 



ca must belong here, unless 



broad bracts, the name 



tp 



it is a species unknown to me. The only discrepancy is that the 

 spur is described as clavate, which is scarcely the case. 



mine. River, Mr. Rich ; Monterey, 1850, 



California : Mokel 



C. C. Parry (Mex. Bound. Surv.) ; Cucamonga Mts., 1881, S. 



B 



A 



H. R Ht 



8. Piperia Michaeli (Greene) 

 Habenaria elegans Boland. (Cat. PL San Franc. 29) ; S. Wats. 



clcgans Lindl 



1835 *• 



Hot. Calif. 2: 133. 1880 ; not Platanthera 



Habenaria Michaeli Greene, Man, Bay- 

 Reg. Bot. 306. 1 894 ; Montolivcia elegans 

 Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 106, 

 in part as to synonym, 1900; Piperia 

 elegans Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 28 : 

 270, in part as to synonym. 



Stem stout, at flowering time leafless, 

 2-3 dm. high : tuber ellipsoid, 2-4 cm. 

 long, 1- 1. 5 cm. wide: basal leaves 

 elliptic or oblanceolate, about 1.5 dm. 



long, 4 cm. wide, withering before blooming ; stem-leaves numer- 

 ous, small and bract-like, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 



FIG. 33 



