ORCHIDACEiE 



H. saccata (1877), Bot. Cal. 2: 135 (1880); Macoun, Cat. 4: 15 (1888); 

 Grace E. Cooleij, in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 19: 245 (1892) ; Raitan, 

 Fl. 177 (1898) ; Howell, Fl. Nw. Amer. 628 (1902), not H. gracilis 

 Colebr., in Hook., Exot. Fl. 2, pi. 135 (1825), nor Lindl, Gen. & 

 Sp. Orch. 312 (1835), nor Reichb. f., in Flora 48:180 (1865).— 

 H. dilatatiformis Rijdb., in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 24: 189 (1897) 

 in part. — H. stricta Rijdb., in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 24: 189 

 (1897), not H. stiicta Rich. & Gal., in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 3: 

 29 (1845), nor Ridley, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 21: 510 (1885). 



Limnorchis stricta Rydb., in INIem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 105 

 (1900), in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 28: 614 (1901), excl. syn. Habe- 

 naria hypei^borea ; Piper, Fl. Wash, in Contr. Nat. Herb. 11 : 210 

 (1906). — L. brachypetala Rydb., in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 

 161 (1901), in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 28: 616 (1901) as to type ( Wil- 

 liams, Bennett City). — L. gracilis Rydb., in Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 CI. 28:627 (1901), excl. spec. cit. Onion. — L. laxiRor a Rydb., 

 in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 28: 630 (1901) as to specimens Wilkes 

 ^ Hall; Piper, Fl. Wash, in Contr. Nat. Herb. 11: 210 (1906). 



"Two feet high or more, slender, rather conspicuously leafy 

 up to the lax and not long, bracted raceme of green flowers : 

 base of the stem with a single quite ample subscarious sheath : 

 leaves lanceolate, acute, 3 or 4 inches long, spreading ; bracts of 

 the raceme linear-lanceolate, surpassing the flowers: lateral sepals 

 oblong-lanceolate, the upper ovate-oblong and shorter: lateral 

 petals falcate ; lip linear, much longer than the short and thick 

 sac-like spur: capsule sessile." Greene, loc. cit. 



Platanthera gracilis Lindl. "P. caule folioso, foliis linearibus 

 acuminatis obtusis debilibus patentibus, spica laxa elongata flo- 

 ribus inferioribus remotis, bracteis angustis acuminatis floribus 

 longioribus, petalis obliquis acuminatis obtusis, labello lineari 

 obtuso calcaris apice inflati obtusissimi longitudine. 



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