Plant differs from the type of the species only in the 
entire or nearly entire lip. 
All of the material from Kentucky and Tennessee 
which has been examined has flowers with an entire lip. 
This variety would seem to be fairly common locally on 
the Cumberland Plateau, with two outlying stations in 
the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and several 
scattered stations on the higher Piedmont Plateau, and 
on the Coastal Plain of Alabama and Mississippi. 
, An interesting let- 
ter regarding a collec- 
~ 
tion of this variety in 
‘l'ennessee wasreceived 
from Dr. H. K. Sven- 
Z Ns son dated September 
15, 1938. It is, in part, 
Yi, as follows: ‘‘'These 
Y) [plants] were collected 
Jf \ ; on the Cumberland 
Wj iN Plateau near Beershe- 
NN 4 Ue Ge Springs. I saw ap- 
proximately two hun- 
1. Habenaria blephariglottis, lip, taken : | 
dred specimens in gras- 
from a typical plant from North Caroli- 
na, three times natural size. SY swamps, accomMmpa- 
2, Habenaria blephariglottis var. integ- nied by H. ciliaris and 
rilabia, lip, three times natural size. H cristata. This is un- 
Drawn February 1941 by G.W.DiILLon doubtedly the plant 
mentioned in Ames, Orchidaceae, IV, 171, 1910— 
‘Tennessee (/) Cumberland Mts., 1888, Mrs. Bennett 
(8) (a form with entire labellum).’ It appears to be a 
large-flowered H. blephariglottis, with large petals and 
with a labellum which is consistently entire or practically 
so. [t occurred in two swamps about five miles apart and 
is known from other places in the vicinity. Like the other 
[ 154 | 
