Florida: Bradford, Brevard, Dade, Duval, Flagler, 
Hillsborough, Lake, Lee, Nassau, Osceola, Pinellas, 
Polk, Putnam, Saint Johns, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, 
Volusia and Washington Counties. 
Alabama: Mobile County. 
Spiranthes cernua (L.) L.C. Rich. var. odorata 
(Nutt. ) Correll comb. noo. 
Neottia odorata Nuttall in Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila. 7 (1834) 98. 
66 
TYPE LOCALITY: . along the borders of the 
Neuse River, at Newbern, in North Carolina, on the 
wet and muddy shores. . .”’ 
Spiranthes odorata Lindley Gen. & Sp. Orch. PI. 
(1840) 467. 
Gyrostachys odorata O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl]. 2(1891) 
664, 
Ihidium odoratum House in Muhlenbergia 1 (1906) 
128. 
Basis FOR MY CONCEPTION OF THE VARIETY: An ex- 
amination of the type of Neottia odorata (according to 
Small, H. Loomis, cf. Journ. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 84 (1938) 
106) in Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard. (a flower of the type is 
figured by Correll in Journ. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 53 
(1987) pl. 15, fig. 8); also an examination of McCarthy’s 
collection from the type locality in Herb. Phila. Acad. 
Nat. Sci. 
Description: Similar in habit to the species, stolon- 
iferous. Roots long, fleshy, coarse. Plant erect, stout or 
slender, often very succulent, glabrous below, downy- 
pubescent above, 1.8—9.5 dm. tall. Leaves mostly basal, 
often extending up the stem, linear to lanceolate, 5-40 
em. long, 5-20 mm. wide. Inflorescence a densely flow- 
ered compact spike of tubular ringent flowers in several 
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