378 House : Orchids of central New York. 



AcHROANTHES MONOPHYLLA (L.) Greene. 



Onondaga Co. : " Otisco," Bcaucliamp. Oneida Co. : Bridge- 

 water (C) ; Taberg, Peck (Ann. Rep. 35. 1894). 



OPHRYS (Tourn.) L. 



Diphylhim Raf. Med. Repos. 5: 357. 1808; fide Kuntze, Rev. 



Gen, 2 : 659. 1891. 

 Listcm R. Br. ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5 : 201. 18 13. Not Lis- 

 ter a Adans. 1763. 

 Disicuiaea Spenn. Fl. Friburg I : 245. 1825, 



The following statement regarding the genus Ophrys is con- 

 tributed by Mr. W. F. Wight of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



'* The genus Ophrys as established by Linnaeus in the Species 

 Plantarum (945. 1753) included fifteen species. In the fifth edi- 

 tion of his Genera Plantarum, Linnaeus adopted the genus from 

 Tournefort (Inst. 437. pL 2jo. 1700) with a slight change in 

 spelling, Tournefort having written it Ophris, The five species 

 included by Tournefort were named by Linnaeus in the Species 

 Plantarum 0. ovata, 0, lUifolia, 0. ovata /9, 0. palndosa, and 0. 

 cordata^ respectively. None of these species belongs to Ophrys 

 as generally accepted by modern authors, but the name is retained 

 instead for the last Linnaean species, (9. insectifera, which Tourne- 

 fort placed not in Ophris, but in Orchis. 



^*The type of Ophrys must be one of the five original species 

 placed in this genus by Tournefort and cannot be a species which 

 that author placed in Orchis. In accordance with the code of 

 nomenclature proposed (1904) by the Botanical Club of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, the type of Ophrys 

 is the first Linnaean species included by Tournefort and also fig- 

 ured by him. This species is Ophrys ovata, and the retention of 

 this species as the type of the genus Ophrys is a treatment which 

 accords with that of several authors among whom the following 

 are noteworthy : 



"ScoPOLi, Flora Carniolica 2: 205. 1772, restricted Ophrys 

 to three species, 0, Nidus- Avis, O. ovata and 0, cordata, and referred 

 insectifera to Orchis, 



"PIoFFMANN, Deutschlands Flora 177. 1804, added to Scopoli's 

 species of Ophrys a fourth, 0, corallorhiza, and recognized Arachnites 

 published by F. W. Schmidt (Fl Boem. i: 74. 1793) ^^ the 

 name of the genus called (?//?; j^' by modern authors. 



