Ze C, maculata Raf. Stems commonly 30-50 cm, tall, purplish, solitary 
or gregarious; scales commonly 3, sheathing about half the stem; bracts 
1 mm, long or less; perianth segments purple, 8-10 mm, long, the upper 
five more or less evenly spaced and arching; lip white,dotted with purple, 
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bearing an acute lobe 1-1.5 mm, long on either side below the middle and 
two ridges in the throat, usually cremulate at the tip; column curved, 
4-4,5 mn, tall; spur 1 mm, long; capsules 12-15 mm, long. (C. multiflora Nutt.), 
Our most common species in the duff of shaded coniferous woods 
throughout our range. 
Se C, Mortensiana Bong. Stems commonly 30-50 om, tall, purplish, 
commonly gregarious; scales commonly 3, sheathing half the stem or less; 
bracts 2 mm, longs perianth segments commonly reddish purple, 8-10 m, 
long, the upver three erect or ascending, closely associated to form 
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a narrow arching hood, widely separated from the two lateral divergent 
and often recurved segnents; lip mostly purple-mottled or blotched or 
obscurely striped, usually white towards the tip, mostly entire; stamineal 
column 6 ma, tall, s-ur 1-2 ma, long; capsules 12-15 m, long. 
In duff of shaded woods; yellowish svecimens occur sometimes, the 
lip being lavender; very rarely clear yellow plants mav occur in the 
same clump as normal ones, the lip being in this case white, 
4, C,. striata Lindl, Stems 20-50 cm, tall, purplish; scales end, 
commonly in the lower portion of the stem, bracts lanceolate, 1-3 m, 
long; verianth segments dark purple, 7-8 mn, long, oblong, purple strined 
along 3 veins, the lip oblong-ovate or obovate, entire, shorter than the 
sepals, with two short ridges near the base, conspicuously striped with 
dark ourple; spur wholly lacking; capsule elliptical, 12-15 mm, long, 
narrowed rather abruvtly at the base to a narrow stipe. 
In duff of shaded woods; infrequent. Kaniksu Forests Moscow hit. 
