Orchis fuscata Rafinesque in Atlant. Journ. 1 (1882) 
150. 
Platanthera herbiola Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. 
(1835) 287. 
Tulotis fuscescens Rafinesque FI. 'Tellur. 2 (1886) 37. 
Tulotis herbiola Rafinesque FI. Tellur. 2 (1886) 37. 
Perularia virescens A. Gray in Bot. Gaz. 5 (1880) 638, 
as to plant, not as to name. 
Platanthera fuscescens Kriinzlin Orch. Gen. & Sp. 1 
(1899) 687, 948, in part as to Am. syn. 
Perularia flava Farwellin Eleventh Ann. Rept. Com- 
missioners Parks and Boulevards Detroit (1900) 54— 
Rydberg in Britton Man. Fl. Northern States and 
Canada (1901) 292—Small Fl. Southeastern U.S. ed. 
2 (1913) 314. 
Habenaria flava var. virescens Fernald in Rhodora 2: 
(1921) 148, in footnote, as to plant, not as to name. 
In 1818, Robert Brown described Habenaria herbiola 
trom ‘*... North America.’’ His description of the plant 
is as follows: ‘‘H. cornu filiforme germine breviore, la- 
bello oblongo obtuso basi utrinque dentato; palato uni- 
dentato, bracteis flore longioribus. ** 
Later, in 1835, Lindley, in making the combination 
Platanthera herbiola, wrote: ‘‘O. scutellata of Nuttall 
seems to differ in nothing except its lip being emargi- 
nate.”’ An examination of aspecimen in the Ames Her- 
barium from Plymouth Co., Massachusetts (C. Blomberg) 
which was compared by Ames with Platanthera herbiola 
at Kew and with specimens in the Nuttall Herbarium 
labelled Orchis herbiola, reveals that it is the northern 
form with short-pedunculate stem and congested raceme 
with elongated floral bracts exceeding the flowers. 
Small, in 1913, treated this northern form of the spe- 
cies as Perularia fava. He wrote: ‘‘... bracts mostly 
longer than the flowers:... lip hastate, the middle lobe 
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