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Rydberg : The American Species of 



California : Mountains east of San Diego, 1850, C. C. Parry 

 (Mex. Bound. Surv., type in herb. Columbia Univ.) ; Plumas 

 county, 1875, Mrs. Austin. 



Washington: Nesqually River, 1838-42, Wilkes Exp., 146, 



in part. 



5. Piperia multiflora sp. nov 



Montolivaca elcgans Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Garden, i : 106, 

 in part as to specimen cited. 1900; not Reichenb. 1881 ; Piperia 

 elegans Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 28: 270, in part. 1901. 



Stem stout, 4-6 dm. high, 3-4- 

 leaved only near the base : basal leaves 

 oblong, oblanceolate or obtuse or 

 acutish, 1-1.5 dm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, 

 withering at anthesis ; lower stem 

 leaves lanceolate, acute ; upper stem 

 leaves much reduced and bract-like, 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, scat- 

 tered, attenuate, 1-2 cm. long : spike 

 very dense, 1-2 dm. long; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, almost equalHng the 

 flowers : these greenish-white, spread- 

 ing, about 1.5 cm. long: upper sepal 

 lanceolate, acute, 4-5 mm. long ; lateral 

 sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, acutish or obtuse ; lip almost 

 linear, obtuse, only slightly hastate at the base, about 6 mm. 

 long; median ridge very low; spur 15-18 mm. long, filiform, 

 not clavate. (Fig. 30.) 



This species is perhaps nearest related to P. elcgans, differing 

 however in the dense spike, the spreading flowers, and narrow 

 petals and sepals. 



Washington: Gray's Harbour, 1838-42, Wilkes Exp ed., 1^4 

 (type in herb. Columb. Univ.); Cascade Mountains, \^%2, Brande- 



ge^. 4-75- 



Montana: Mission Range, 1883, W. M. Ca?iby,joy. 



California : Monterey, Wm. Rich. 



6. Piperia elegans (Lindl.) Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 270 



in part. 1901 



Platanthera elegans Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. PI. 285. 1835 ; 

 Montolinaea elegans Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Card, i : 106, in 



