Further notes on the orchids of central New York* 



Homer Doliver House 



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based mainly upon herbarium specimens examined in the herbar- 

 ium of Columbia University, the New York Botanical Garden, a 

 lesser number in my own collection and certain records in Paine's 

 catalogue of Oneida County plants (1865). It was evident at the 

 time that the record was a very incomplete one and that several 

 changes in nomenclature were necessary. The purpose of the pres- 

 ent paper is to augment the known localities for some of the rarer 

 orchids of that region, the result of further collection and study of 

 specimens in various herbaria, together w^ith authentic reports not 

 previously given, and to make some necessary changes in their 

 nomenclature. In the citations of specimens, N designates the 

 National herbarium ; C, Columbia University ; Y, New York 

 Botanical Garden ; S, Syracuse University; and H, the author's 

 herbarium. Species starred are new to the region and were not 

 given in my previous list.t 



CRIOSANTHES Raf. Am. Monthly Mag. 268. 18 18. 



Journ. de Phys. 89; 102. 1819. 



This generic segregate of Cypripedmm was recognized also by 

 Beck in 1833, and Pfitzer recognizes it as a section of Cypripedmm. 

 Its evident characters are the separate sepals and the prolongation 

 of the lip at the apex into a long blunt spur, which is distorted at 

 the upper end, giving rise to the common name, ram*s-head lady's- 

 slipper. 



Arictimun Beck, Bot. N. & Middle U, S. 352. 1833, 

 AiHetina, Sect, of Cypnpedium, Pfitz. ; Engl. & Prantl, Planzenfam. 



2*^: 83. 1888. 



* Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



fTorreya 3 : 49. Ap 1903. 



X Since the present paper was written, Dr. J. V. Haberer has published in Rho- 

 <iora (May and June, 1905) some notes on *' Plants of Oneida County, New York, 

 and Vicinity," in which records of the following orchids occur: Achroanthes tinifoiia, 

 Blepkariglotds grandijlora, Corallorhiza multijiom flavida^ Pcramium fessfllatum, 

 and Pe rami urn ophioides, 



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