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regarding 0. peruviana : " OPHRYS (Peruviana) bulbis fili- 

 formibus, caule subfolioso ; floribus secundis, nectarii labio quin- 

 quefido. Burm. Amer. p. 178. t. 183. f. 1. Helleborine spiralis, 

 flore albo, Plum. Cat. 9. Epipactis floribus uno versu dispositis. 

 Feuill. Feruv. torn. 2. p. 726. pi. 17:' Plate 178, fig. 1, of 

 Burman to which Aublet refers is certainly not to be confused* 

 with S. tortilis, Rich. The figure represents a remarkably tall 

 species with flowers as large as those of S. cernua, Rich., and 

 with broad, elliptic-oblong leaves. The amount of dependence 

 to be placed on Burman' s drawing is certainly not inconsiderable 

 when it is reahzed that the other orchids represented are very 

 faithfully portrayed in their macroscopic details. Plate 17 in 

 Feuillee's work, referred to in the above extract from Aublet's 

 Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Frangaise, represents a species 

 similar to S. Romanzoffiana, though much stouter. 



Spiranthes tortilis has recently been identified as a native of 

 the United States and should not be confused with S. tortilis of 

 authors, not Richard. It is difficult to distinguish from S. gra- 

 cilis when leaves are wanting. 



Florida: 1887, A. H. Curtiss. Dade Co.: Cocoanut Grove, in rocky 

 pine w^ods. May 21, 1904, A. A. Eaton (no. 221) ; J. K. Small & 

 P. Wilson. — Near Camp Long View, J. K. Small & P. Wil- 

 son.— Blsick Point Creek, May 22, 1904, A. A. Eaton (no. 951). 

 — Rocky pine woods near Miami, May 26, 1904, A. A. Eaton (no. 

 979). 



Louisiana : New Orleans, 1832, T. Drummond (no. 331, in part). 



4. S. LONGILABRIS, Lindl., Orch. PI. 467 (1840). Basing 

 my conclusions on a specimen in the Gray Herbarium collected 

 by T. Drummond in New Orleans in 1833, which agrees with 

 Lindley's description of S. longilabris, I refer here S. hrevifolia, 

 Chapm., Fl. S. U. S. ed. 1, 462 (1860), and Gyrostachys hre- 

 vifolia, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI., part XL, 664 (1891). — G. longi- 

 labris, Kuntze, loc. cit. 



Mississippi, Jackson Co. : Ocean Springs, November 11, 1889, S. M. 

 Tracy. 



