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Specimens examined. — Upper end Donner Lake, Heller 6996; Glen 

 Alpine, Tahoe, 7,000 feet, McGregor 37 ; near Lily Lake, Tahoe, 

 marshy woods, 6,800 feet. Smiley 317 ; South Fork of the San Joaquin, 

 J. Muir in 1873. 



2. SPIRANTHES 



1. Spiranthes RomanzoflEiana Cham., Linnaea, vol. 3, p. 32. 1828. 



Gyrostachijs romansoffiana MacM., Met. Minn., p. 171. 1892. 

 Gyrostaohys stricta Rydb., Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard., vol. 1, p. 107. 1900. 

 Ibidium romanzoffiana (Cham.) House, Muhl., vol. 1, p. 129. 1906. 



Type locality. — "In alveo turfuso convallium infimorum Un- 

 alascheae passim." 



Range. — Subarctic America from Newfoundland to Alaska, south 

 to Connecticut, Great Lakes, Colorado, and California. In New Mex- 

 ico (Wooton and Standley, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 19, p. 154. 1915). 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



Specimens exa^mined. — -Lake Valley, Tahoe, 6,400 feet, Abrams 

 4777 ; vicinity of Angora Lake, Tahoe, 7,000 feet, McGregor 211 ; 

 high mountain near Donner Pass, Torrey 509 ; Cascade Mountains, 

 Tahoe, Chestnut and Drew, August 8, 1890; Hopkins Creek above 

 Yosemite, Lemmon in 1873 ; Tioga Road above Aspen Valley, Yosem- 

 ite, 6,800 feet, Smiley 898 ; Billy Brown meadows, 6,500 feet, Shuteye 

 Mountain, Madera County, J. Murdoch Jr., 1551 ; region of Dinkey 

 Creek, Hall and Chandler 569 ; Hockett meadows, Tulare County, 

 8,500 feet. Hall and Babcock 5626 ; Wliitney meadows, Tulare County, 

 in granite sand and gravel all about the meadows and above timber 

 line, Coville and Funston 1633 ; northwest of Wliitney meadows along 

 North Fork of Kern River, Tulare County, V. Bailey 1713. 



3. H ABENAKI A 



Flowers shorter than the bracts; plants of moist places. 



Flowers greenish; spike loosely flowered 1. H. sparsiflora 



Flowers white; spike densely flowered 2. H. dilatata var. leucostachys 



Flowers much longer than the bracts; plants of dry places ....3. H. unalaschensis 



1. Habenaria sparsiflora Wats., Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 12, p. 276. 

 1877. 



Limnorchis sparsiflora (S. Wats.) Rydb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 28, 

 p. 631. 1901. 



Type locality. — "Common in the Sierra Nevada and mountains 

 of nortliern California." 



