ORCHIDACE.E 



Gard. 1: 106 (1900), in Britton's Man. 292 (1901); Small, in H. viridis 

 Porter's Fl. Pa. 92 (1903) and Fl. Se. U. S. 312 (1903) ; House, in 

 Torreya 3: 51 (1903); Jellife, in Torreya 4 : 99 {1904<); Farr, in 

 Contr. Bot. Lab. Univ. Pa. 3: 28 (1907). — C. viride ^ brac- 

 teatum Richter, PI. Europ. 1: 279 (1890). 



Platanthera viridis var. bracteata Reichb. /., Orch. Eur. 

 130, t. 83 (435) {l%51)\Kranzl, Orch. Gen. et Sp. 1 : 617 (1899). 



Peristylus bracteatus f. major Franch. Si, Sav., Enum. 

 PL Jap. 2: 31, 513 (1879). — P. viridis var. bracteata Kurtz, 

 in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 19: 408 (1895) {where he refers it to 

 Reichb. f.). 



Platanthera viridis Finet, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 47: 284 

 (1900). — P. Chorisiana Krdnzl, Orch. Gen. et Sp. 1: 615 

 (1899) as to characters of the labellum and fig. in Reichb. f. 

 Orch. Eur. 



''"f-bQ. ORCHIS bracteata. 



"O. labello lineari apice bifido, petalis subconniventibus, later- 

 alibus ovatis latioribus, cornu obtuso scrotiformi, bracteis flora 

 duplo longioribus patentibus. W. 



"Orchis bracteata Muhlenberg in litt. 



"Beblatterte Ragwurz. W. 



^'Habitat in Pensylvania {v. s.) 



"Radix palmata. Caulis spithamceus. Folia ovata reticulata^ 

 facie et viagnitudine epipactidis latifolice. Flores virides paulo 

 majores quavi in prcecedente.^ Petala tria superioi'a conniventia, 

 bina lateralia duplo latioi^a ovata recta. Labellum lineare de- 

 pendens, ajjice bifidum cum mucrone pai^vo obscuro inter laci- 

 nias, scepius deficiente. Cornu obtusum brevissimum scrotiforme. 

 Bractese oblongo-lanceolatce flore duplo, quandoque tiiplo fere^ 

 longiores patentes. W." Willd. loc. cit. 



^ Orchis viridis. 



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