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ORCHIDACEAE 



6. Piperia elegans (Lindl.) Rydl). 

 Elegant Piperia. Fig. 1164. 



Ptutanthera elegans Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 283. 

 1835. 



Habcnaria elei/ans Boland. Cat. PL San Franc. 29. 

 1870. 



Piperia elongata Rvdb. Bull. Torrey Club 28: 270. 

 1901. 



Stem slender, 4-7 dm. high, leafy only at 

 hase. Basal leaves 2 or 3, lanceolate to 

 ovate, acute or obtuse, 8-15 cm. long, 1-5 cm. 

 wide ; stem leaves reduced to bracts, 5-10 

 mm. long; spike usually lax 15-30 cm. long; 

 ilovvers greenish white ; upper sepal lanceo- 

 late, acute, 5 mm. long, the lateral linear- 

 oblong, acute ; lip broadly lanceolate, slightly 

 hastate at base; spur filiform 10-12 mm. 

 long. 



Open woods. Transition Zone; British Columbia 

 and Idaho to southern California. Type locality: 

 western North America. 



5. Piperia multiflora Rydb. 

 Many-flowered Piperia. Fig. 1163. 



Piperia multiflora Rydb, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 63S. 

 1901. 



Stem stout 4-6 dm. high, leafy only near the 

 base. Basal leaves 3-4, oblong or oblanceolate, 

 obtuse or acutish, 10-15 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, 

 withering at anthesis ; lower stem leaves lanceo- 

 late, acute, the upper bract-like ; spike very 

 dense 1-2 dm. long ; flowers greenish white, 

 upper sepals lanceolate, acute, 4-5 mm. long, 

 the lateral linear-lanceolate ; lip nearly linear, 

 obtuse, only slightly hastate at base, 6 mm. 

 long; spur filiform about 15 mm. long. 



Wooded slopes, Transition Zone. Washington and 

 Montana to central California. This and leptopetala 

 may be only forms of the common elegans. Type lo- 

 cality: Gray's Harbor, Washington. 









7. Piperia longispica Durand. 



Long-spiked Piperia. 



Fig. 



1165. 



Gvmnandenia longispica Durand, Tourn. 

 " Sci. Philad. II. 3: 101. 1855. 



Acad. 



Piperia longispica Rydb. Bull. 

 639. 1901. 



Torrey Club 28: 



Stem stout, 3-7 dm. high, more or less 

 leafy towards the base. Basal leaves and 

 lower stem leaves 2-4, lanceolate, acute, 

 10-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, withering 

 at or soon after anthesis ; upper stem 

 leaves bract-like ; spike many-flowered, 

 but not dense, 1-3 dem. long ; flowers 

 greenish ; upper sepal ovate, obtuse, 5 

 mm. long, the lateral oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse ; lip ovate, hastate at base, 5 mm. 

 long ; spur filiform, about 12 mm. long. 



Open woods, Upper Sonoran and Transition 

 Zones; central Sierra Nevada to the Santa 

 Monica and San Bernardino Mountains. Type 

 localitj": near Nevada City, Nevada County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



