‘‘herbarium names’*’ came into being, one honoring 
Eaton, I concluded that the Floridian Spiranthes was 
puzzlingly close to S. gracilis and at most simply a geo- 
graphical variety. 
It may well be that morphological differences sustain- 
ing Wherry’s conclusions may be discovered, but as yet 
I have not found them. However, it is indeed clear, that 
the Floridian variant is much more puzzling taxonomi- 
cally than the Canadian one which Fernald has separated 
out because the flowers are usually secund and the leaves 
are present during anthesis. 
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