Limodorum pinetorum Smallin Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 
3 (1905) 421. 
BasIS FOR MY CONCEPTION OF THE VARIETY: An ex- 
amination of Nos. 4805 and 6840 in Herb. Ames which 
were compared by Ames with the type of Calopogon 
multiflorus at Kew; also an examination of the type of 
Limodorum pinetorum (Small 1676) in Herb. N.Y. Bot. 
Gard. and an examination of No. 19818 (Co-type of L. 
pinetorum) in Herb. Ames which was compared by Ames 
with Lindley’s type of Calopogon multiflorus at Kew. 
Descriprion: Rootstalk a horizontal elongate (rarely 
bulbous) corm which is often 4 cm. long and 5 mm. in 
diameter, having a tuft of roots at the proximal end and 
the remains of the old stalk at the distal end. Plant sca- 
pose, erect, rigid, glabrous, 1.5-4.5 dm. tall, often with 
several scarious sheaths at the base; stem green below, 
chocolate-colored or dark madder-purple above, usually 
geniculate at the base (two stems occasionally produced 
from the same corm). Leaves (when present) one or two, 
narrowly linear, long-acuminate, basal, the lower portion 
sheathing the stem, firm and rigid, conspicuously nerved, 
conduplicate, 4-19 em. long, mostly less than 5 mm. wide. 
Inflorescence a dense or loose elongate raceme composed 
of six to ten or more showy flowers which open in rapid 
succession, 3.5-15 em. long, 8—-3.5 cm. in diameter. Flo- 
ral bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
5-10 mm. long. Flowers vividly magenta-purple to deep 
crimson, on slender pedicellate ovaries which are 6-10 
mm. long. Lateral sepals rising from a wide base, ovate- 
oval to broadly lanceolate, faleate, abruptly acute or acu- 
minate (often long-acuminate), sometimes keeled at the 
apex, 11-13 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide. Dorsal sepal nar- 
rowly oblong, somewhat concave, acute or apiculate, 
13-14.5 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide. Petals with a rather 
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