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Middle District.— Red Bank, j\Ion. Co. (NB), Lindenwold, Woodbury, 

 Swedesboro. 

 Pine Barrens.- — Forked River (NY), Bamber, Landisville, Hammonton. 

 Cape May. — Bennett. 



Blephariglottis blephariglottis (Willd.). White Fringed Orchis. 



Orchis blephariglottis Willdenow, Sp. PI. IV. 9. 1805 [Pennsylvania (Prob. 



=:N. J.)].— Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 385. 1814.— Barton, Fl. Phila. II. 



136. 1818. 

 Platanthera blephariglottis Knieskern 31. 

 Habcnaria blephariglottis Willis 61. — Britton 235. 

 Blephariglottis blephariglottis Keller and Brown 109. 



Bogs, abundant in the Pine Barren and Cape May districts 

 and locally in the Middle district, extending- to Bergen, Hudson 

 and Mercer counties. 



The White Fringed Orchis impresses the visitor to the Pine 

 Barrens more than any other plant. There is a delicacy and 

 beauty about it that seem to remove it entirely from the class of 

 "wild flowers" and it seems as if it belonged rather with the 

 greenhouse exotics. 



Throughout midsumaner nearlv e\-ery boggy spot in the Pine 

 Barrens is decked with the white plumes of this orchid, some 

 of the flower spikes being 15-18 cm. in length. 



Between this and the last there is scarcely any dift'erence. ex- 

 cept in the matter of color, and when the}- are dried it is well 

 nigh impossible to tell them apart. 



Two hybrids occur in which this species is concerned. B 

 hicolor Rafinesque is B. blephariglottis x B. ciliaris and has 

 been found at Bamber by Mr. Bayard Long, August 25, 1909. 



B. canbyi Ames* (B. blephariglottis x B. cristata) has been 

 collected a number of times in the Pine Barrens and Cape May 

 peninsula. It varies both in size and color of the flowers. I 

 have it from Cape May Court House and Belleplain. 



Fl. — INIid-July to mid-August. 



Middle District. — Camden, Red Bank, Paulsboro. Woodbury, Lindenwold, 

 Tomlin (S), Swedesboro, Dividing Creek (S), Haleyville (P). 



Pine Barrens. — Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove (P), Pt. Pleasant 

 (S), Toms River (S), West Creek (S), Jones Mill (S), Atsion (S). Speed- 



* Rhodora 1908, 70 [Lewes, Del] 



