stachys 



ORCHIDACEiE 

 mens cited. — L. leptoceratitis Rijdb., in Bull. N. Y. Bot. H. dilatata 

 Card. 2: 162 (1901), in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 28: 624 (1901) as Zf^ltl^^' 

 to Rudkin specimen. 



*'16. Platanthera leucostachys. 



"P. caule folioso, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis, spica lon- 

 gissima densa, bracteis florum longitudine, sepalis ovatis obtusis, 

 petalis membranaceis linearibus emarginatis, labello rhomboideo 

 lineari-lanceolato calcare filiformi arcuato duplo breviore, an- 

 therae lobis parallelis rostello maximo plicato.^ 



"Hab. in ora occidentali Americce septentrionalis, Douglas, 

 {hab. s. sp. comm. Soc. Hort.) 



"Rostellum fere Gymnadenias sed magnum et prominens. 

 Flores verosimiliter albi." Lindl. loc. cit. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA, Kootenay District 



Boggy places, Donald, Columbia Valley, July 4, 1885, Macoun (6); 



swamps, July 13, 1885, Macoun (3). 



Victoria Co.: Beacon Hill, June 12, 1893, Macoun (3, 6). 



V^ASHINGTON 



Yakima Region, 1882, T. S. Brandegee {noA80){^).—Csiscside Mts. 49° N. 

 lat., 1859, Lyall (3). — 1889, G. R. Vasey (no. 77) (2, 3).— 1880, J. M. 

 Grant (no. 11) (9); 1884, Grant (2). — Moist ravines, marshes, 5100 ft., 

 head of Poison Creek, September 1, 1897, il/. W. Gorman (no. 812) (2).— 

 Nason City, July, 1893, alt. 2000-3000 ft., J. H. SandbergS^J. B. Leiberg 

 (2). — Kuskuskie River, Capt. Wilkes' Exp. (no. 256) (2).— Open, wet 

 ground, upper valley of the Nesqually, July 10, 1894, O. D. Allen (no. 

 75) (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). 



Clallam Co.: Olympic Mts., August, 1900, A. D. E. Elmer (no. 2551) 

 (2, 4). 



Spokane Co. : Mt. Carleton, July 17, 1902, Frank 0. Kreager (no. 195) (3). 

 Kittitas Co.: Slopes of Mt. Stuart, alt. 545 m., July 24, 1893, Sandberg 

 c§r Leiberg (no. 576) (2). 



1 Lindley's type of Platanthera leucostachys, collected by Douglas in 1826, is accompanied 

 by a drawing which represents retme petals. This peculiarity is not characteristic of the 

 flowers of the type. 



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