4JA\ \'\..\ST \AVV OK ALABAMA. 



.IaI'AX. 



Canadian /Diiu to Luuisiauian area. Xcwroiindlaud. (^iicIht. and Onlario; Nfw 

 Enjiland west to Miunesola. Honth to Florida and Louisiana. 



Ai.ahama: All o\ or the State. Hogs and pine-hancn Hwanips. Lawri-nec. Cull- 

 man. MoMtgoniery, .Vutauga. Wilcox, Clarke, Washington. Mohilc. and Kaldwin 

 counties. Flowers i)alo purplish. A])ril, May. Freciuent. 



Type locality : " Hal>. in Virginia. ( 'iinada.'' 



Herli. (ieol. Snrv. Horh. Molir. 



Pogonia divaricata ( L. ) Ix. I5r. in Ait. llort. K(^w. cd. 1.'. 5 : 203. 1 -(LS. 



SrRKAKIMi ]'(Ki()NI A. 



Arelliiisa diraiicdla L. Sp. 1'1.2:9.")1. 17.53. 



KM. .Sk. 2 : J'-'fi. Gray, Man. ed. 0, oO."). Chap. Fl. -158. 



Carolinian and Loiiisianian areas. From the Sontli Atlantic and Kaslcrn ( Julf 

 States north to eastern Tennessee and New .Icrsey. 



Ai.ai»ama: Central I'ine helt to Coast plain. T.orders of juinds. springy ])la<u's; 

 most fre<|nent in t!iolowpine harreusof the Coast plain. Fseandda County. I'usca- 

 loosa County ( i:. .1. Smilh^ .Mol>ile and Baldwin counties. Flowers licsh-eolor. 

 .\pril. -May; iVeipieut with the last. 



Typo locality : " llab. in Anunicae horealis paludosis. " 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Pogonia verticillata (Willd.) Xutt. (ien. 2 : 192. 1818. Wiiori.kd 1'<).;<)Nia. 



.Irethum rerticilluta Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 81. 180.5. 



Fll. Sk. 2 : 4(17. ( iray. Man. ed. 6, 50."). Cha].. Fl. 458. 



Alleghenian and Louisianian areas, Ontario; New England, Eastern States we.st 

 to Michigan, Ohio N'alley to the Gnlf States; from Florida to western Louisiana. 



Alabama: Central Pine belt. Shady woods. Tuscaloosa County {E. A. Smith). 

 March ; rare. 



Type locality: llab. in Pensylvania, Marylandia, 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



GYROSTACHYS Pers. Syu. 2 : 511. 1,S07. 



(Spiuantiiks L.C.Rich. Mem. Mus. r.ir.4:42. 1818.) 



Fifty or more species, perennials, widely distributed over waruuT and temperate 

 regions. .la])an, Europe. Atlantic' America, 10 to 12. 



Gyrostachys cernua ( L. ) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 664. 1891. 



DuooPiNG Ladiks' Tresses. 



Ophrijs cernua L. Sp. PI. 2 : 94G. 1753 



Spiranthes cernua L. C. Rich. Orchid. .K\x\\. 37. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 2: 492. Gray, Man. ed. 6, .502. Chap. Fl. 462. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2 : 424. 



Alleghenian to Lonisianian area. Nova Scotia to Ontario; New England, west 

 to Minnesota, Nebraska. Missouri, and Arkansas, south through the Ohio Valley to 

 South Atlantic and (iulf States. 



Alabama: 0\er the State. Low prairies and damj) pine barrens. Cullman. Tus- 

 caloosa, Escambia. Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers white. October, Novem- 

 ber; fre<iuent. 



Type locality: " Hal), in Virginia. Canada.'' 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



Gyrostachys gracilis (Bigelow) Kuntze. Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 664. 1891. 



Slender Ladiks' Tkkssks. 



Xeottia firacilis Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2 : 322. 1824, 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 503. Chap. Fl. 462. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 424. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario to 

 Lake Winnipeg and Mackenzie River; New England west to Minnesota, south to 

 Texas and Florida. 



Alabama: All over the State. Most frequent in dry pine barrens. Cullman, 

 Chilton, Washington, Clarke, Choctaw, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers 

 white. April to .June; frerinent. 



Type locality : "In dry hilly woods [near Boston]." 



Herb. Geol. Snrv. Herb. Mohr. 



