ORCHIDACEM 51 



HABENARIA REPENS 



Habenaria repens, Nuttall, Gen. N, A. PL 2: 190 (1818). 

 — Elliott, Bot. So. C. 2: 489. — Eaton & Wright, No. Am. 

 Bot. 260. — Lindley, Orch. PI. 310. — Chapman, Fl. S. 

 U. S. ed. 1, 461 ; ed. 3, 487.— Darby, Bot. So. Sts. 527. — 

 Cogniaux, Martii FL Bras., Orch. 1 : 91. — Hemsley, BioL 

 Centr. Am., Bot. 3 : 306. — Kranzlin, EngL Bot. Jahrh. 16 : 

 135 (1893); Orch. Gen. Sp. 1: 317. — Small, FL Se. U.S. 

 315. — Ames, Co7itr. Orch. FL Fla. 11. — Mohr, PL Life 

 Ala. 455. 



Habenaria tricuspis, Richard, FL Ciib. 2 : 249. — Grisebach, Cat. 

 PL Cub. 271. 



Habenaria radicans, Grisebach, Cat. PL Cub. 271 (synonym 

 merely, without characterization, applied to Wright's no. 3309 

 and attached to H. tricusjns for no discoverable reason). 



" Root creeping ; leaves and bractes lanceolate, acute ; lip 

 3-parted, lateral segments setaceous ; spur scarcely the length 

 of the germ, adscendent ; inner petals biparted, the lower seg- 

 ment setaceous. Hab. On the margins of ponds near Savannah 

 in Georgia and in Carolina ; subaquatic. Obs. Root perennial, 

 fibrous, creeping, base of the stem also radicant ; fibres lanugi- 

 nous. Stem leafy, about 12 inches high. Leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, approximate, in the spike diminishing to bractes, which 

 are about equal with the flowers. Spike linear, 3 to 5 inches long. 

 Flowers yellowish-green, numerous, but not dense. Outer seg- 

 ments of the calix glandularly mucronulate, upper segments 

 vaulted ; the 2 inner petals bifid nearly to the base, with the 

 divisions so unequal and divaricate as to appear unconnected, 

 the upper one linear and acute, the lower setaceous ; lip 3-parted, 

 the central portion shorter and linear, the 2 lateral setaceous." — 

 Nuttall, loc. cit. 



