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2. Cypripedium candidum Willd. White lady's slipper. 



In lowlands in the eastern part of the state. Antelope County; Central 

 City; Knox County; Lincoln; Newark; Richardson County; Scotia 

 Junction. 



2. Orchis. 292. 

 1. Orchis spectablis L. 



Gaieorchis spectablis (L.) Rydb. 

 Wooded bluffs of the Missouri. Belle vue; Peru; Plattsmouth; Omaha. 



3. Habenaria. 292-295. 

 Lip not fringed. 



Lip three toothed. 1. H. bracteata. 



Lip entire. 



Flowers white. 2. H. hyperborea. 



Flowers green. 3. H. dilatata. 



Lip fringed. 4. H. luecophaea. 



1. Habenaria bracteata (Willd.) R. Br. 



Along shady banks in various parts of the state. Gordon; Lincoln; 

 Peru; Sioux County. 



2. Habenaria hyperborea (L.) R. Br. 



In the western part of the state. Boelus; Chadron; Valentine. 



3. Habenaria dilatata (Pursh.) Gray. 

 Nebraska according to Britton's Manual. 



4. Habenaria luecophaea (Nutt.) Gray. 



In wet meadows over most of the state, common in wet valleys of the 

 sand-hill region. Belmont; Cherry County; Crete; Fairbury; Kennedy; 

 Lincoln; Plainview. 



4. Ibidium. 299. 



Flowers apparently in a single rank, secund. 1. I. gracilis. 



Flow^ers 3-ranked. 



Sepals and petals forming a hood, callosities of lip small or wanting, 



2. I. strictum. 



Sepals separate, callosities nipple shaped. 3. I. cernuum. 



1. Ibidium gracilis (Bigel.) Beck. 

 Spiranthes gracilis (Bigel.) Beck. 



Franklin. 



2. Ibidium strictum (Rybd.) House. 

 Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham. 



Grand Island; Long Pine; Simeon. 



3. Ibidium cernuum (L.) House. 

 Spiranthes cernua (L.) Rich. 



Common in wet meadows throughout the state. Ashland; Brown 

 County; Cody; Long Pine Canon; Newark; Pine Ridge; Plainview; 

 Sioux County; Thomas County. 



5. Leptorchys. 303. 



1. Leptorchys loeselii (L.) MacM. 



Liparis loeselii (L.) Richard. 

 Thedford. 



