REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I917 21 



made by the late Rev. Hermann Wibbe"*^ who found it in the " Lily 

 marsh" at South New Haven, Oswego county, on June 15, 1878. 

 It has since been collected there by Charles S. Sheldon (June 27, 

 1879, state herbarium) and by H. D. House and E. P. Killip (July 

 I, 1917). H. D. House'"^ (p. 380) cites collections from near Bald- 

 winsville, Onondaga county (Beauchamp, Underwood, O. E. Pearce 

 and others).. It was collected at Fine, St Lawrence county, by 

 Peck and at Canada lake, Fulton county, by C. P. Alexander and 

 A. Olsson^^. In 1894, W. W. Rowlee" collected it at East Palermo, 

 Oswego county. 



In 1916 it was collected in a bog east of Duck lake. Conquest, 

 Ca}uga county, by L. Griscom'*^, A. A. and A. H. Wright, F. P. 

 Metcalf, K. M. Wiegand and L. H. MacDaniels, and near Victory, 

 Cayuga county, by L. Griscom, A. A. and A. H. Wright, F. P. 

 Metcalf and K. M. Wiegand. 



Ophrys cordata Linnaeus 

 (Figure i) 



The accompanying map which shows the distribution of the three 

 species of Ophrys in New York indicates this as the most abundant 

 and widely distributed species in this State. There are few local 

 floras which do not record it, among them being Dudley's Cayuga 

 Flora. 



Paine" (p. 137) reports it from southern Herkimer county, flats 

 of the Mohawk valley, swamps west of Rome, Paris hill and 

 southern Oneida county (Gray). F. V. Coville^'' reports it from 

 Smithville, Chenango county, and this with a record from Unadilla 

 Forks are cited by Clute*° (p. 104). Day'^ (p. 76), records it from 

 three localities in the western counties, and in the Plants of Monroe 

 County and Vicinity* it is reported only from Bergen swamp, 

 Genesee county, where it was again collected by W. W. Rowlee^^ 

 and also by H. D. House, M. S. Baxter and E. P. Killip (July 4, 

 1917). 



Mrs Goodrich" reports it from near Clay, Onondaga county 

 (p. 72) and Gordinier and Howe'*" record it from Rensselaer county. 



^^Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 6, p. 192. 1S77 and 31st Ann. Rep't N. Y. State 

 Mus.. p. 31. 1879. 



^"^ W. W. Rowlee. Revision of the Genus Listera. Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 

 26. p. 165. 1899. 



^^ F. P. Metcalf & L. Griscom. Rare New York State Plants. Rhodora, 

 19: 52. 1917. 



39 Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 12. p. 53. 1885. 



^^ W. N. Clute. Flora of the Upper Susquehanna. 1898. 



*^ Mrs L. H. H. Goodrich. Plants of Onondaga County. I912. 



^- Gordinier & Howe. Flora of Rensselaer County. 1894. 



