subscapose raceme of scattered flowers. The lowermost 
bracts of the raceme slightly exceed the flowers, but the 
uppermost bracts are about equal to or shorter than the 
flowers. An examination of a specimen in the Ames Her- 
barium from Early Co., Georgia (R. MW. Harper 1909), 
which was compared by Ames with the type of Orchis 
Hava and with the specimen in the Gronovian Herbari- 
um, reveals that it is also the characteristic plant found 
in the southern and southwestern United States. The 
lip of the flowers in this collection is scarcely or only shal- 
lowly toothed at the base. A specimen of this collection 
inthe New York Botanical Garden Herbarium is deter- 
mined as Perularia seutellata (Nutt.) Small. 
In 1824, Elliott described Orchis bidentata trom the 
. middle districts of Georgia and Carolina.’’ His de- 
scription of this segregate agrees closely with typical HZ. 
Hava, and an examination of the scapose inflorescence of 
Klhott’s putative type in the Charleston Museum shows 
that it is similar to the Linnaean plant. 
In 1834, Nuttall described Orehis scutellata trom Ar- 
kansas. His description of the plant is, in part, as follows: 
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... stem angular, about a foot high, bearing two dis- 
tant, unequal, lanceolate, acute leaves, and two or three 
bracts below the commencement of the spike: floral 
bracts acute and sheathing, each about the length of the 
germ [ovary]: flowers remote, forming a scattered spike 
three to four inches long: ... [petals] a little crenulated 
along the margin in common with the lip,...the lip 
somewhat longer than the lateral segments, partly ob- 
long-oval, emarginate at the extremity, and at its com- 
mencement producing a denture on either side, and one 
protuberant or central elevation.” 
Small, in 1913 (FI. Southeastern U.S. ed. 2, p. 314), 
maintained Perularia bidentata (Orchis bidentata) and P. 
scutellata (Orchis scutellata) as distinet from P. flava. He 
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