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* Ophrys convallarioides (Swartz) Wight 



Epipactis convallarioides, Swartz, Kongl. Vet. Acad. Handl. II. 



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21 : 232. 1800. 

 Listera convaUarioides Torn Comp. 320. 1826. 



Herkimer Co.: Cold woods of the higher hills, Newport, 



House ^ 1903 (H). 



IBIDIUM Salisb. Trans. Hort. Soc. I : 281. 18 12 



r 



Anstotclcal^onY. FI. Cochinch. 522. 1790. Not Ariitotela M^ns. 



1763. 

 Gyrostachis Pers. (in text, Syn. 2:' 511. 1807); Gyrostachys 



Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 2: 664. 1891, 

 Spiranthes L. C. Richard Mem. Mus. Paris 4: 42. 18 18. 



Considerable difference of opinion regarding the generic name 

 of our species of " ladies' tresses" exists among recent American 

 authors. The earliest name, Orchiastrmn Micheli, is taken up by 

 Professor Greene (Manual Bay Reg. Bot. 305. 1894). Kuntze's 

 usage of the name Gyrostachys is followed by Britton & Brown 

 (Illus. Flora i : 470. 1896), Britton's Manual (299. 1901) ^^^ 

 by Small (Flora Southeastern U. S. 317. 1903), while the name 

 Spiranthes L. C. Rich., in usage prior to these authors^ is again 

 taken up by Ames (Orch. 113. 1905). 



The name Gyrostachys is questionably published in text and 

 no combinations are made by Persoon with this name. Regard- 

 ing three of his species of Neottia {spiralis, aestivalis, and tortths) 

 Persoon makes this observation after the first : 



'*Obs. An ob spicam tortilem et labellum crenulatum cum 2- 

 sequentibus, genere distinguenda? {Gyrostachis^ 



It is quite evident therefore that Gyrostachis is not a published 

 genus and under the new code of nomenclature proposed by the 



American 



Were 



sp 



'■ Salisb. (181 2) is /. spirale Salisb. {Spiranthes 

 aiitiannalis Richard, ^. spiralis C. Koch), a species congeneric 

 with those of the eastern United States herein treated under the 

 name Ibidiwn. 



The following species o{ Ibidinm have been reported from cen- 

 tral New York, under Gyrostachys of my previous list. 



