ORCHIDACEiE 



Mendocino Co.: Red Mt., 1869, A. Kellogg Sr W. G. W. Harford H. sparsi- 



(no. 963) (3); swamps, Red Mts., June (1866?), H. N. Bolander (no. flora 



6580) (3). 



Eldorado Co.: Above "Slipping Ford," Strawberry Valley, 6500 ft., 



July 13, 1897, E. Brainerd (7); under large conifers, Strawberry Creek, 



5900 ft., July 14, 1897, Brainerd (5). 



Mariposa Co.: June 30, 1885, J. W. Congdon (9). — Glacier Point, Yose- 



mite, July 5-19, 1902, Eastwood (9). — Big trees and Yosemite Valley, 



1866, Bolander (no. 6251) (3, 4, 16), (type). 



Fresno Co.: October, 1890, Mrs. Rawson Peckinpah (2). — Pine Ridge, 



5000 ft., June 15-25, 1900, Hall <^ Chandler (no. 139) (2, 4). 



Tulare Co.j: Kern River, near lakes, July 16, 1903, Eastwood (9). 



San Bernardino Co. : Mill Creek, San Bernardino Mts., July, 1881, July, 



1882, ^S*. B. 8r W. F. Parish (no. 947) (3, 4, 15).— Deep Creek, July, 



1901, Le Roy Ahrams (no. 2047) (4). 



15. H. brevifolia Greene, in Bot. Gaz. 6:218 (1881). H. hrevifolia 



Platanthera hyperborea 8 leucostachys KrdnzL, Orch. 

 Gen. et Sp. 1 : 642 (1899) in part— P. brevifolia Krdnzl, Orch. 

 Gen. et Sp. 1: 639 (1899). 



Limnorchis brevifolia Rijdb., in Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 28: 631 

 (1901). 



"Habenaria brevifolia. — Stem a foot or two high and 

 stout; leaves numerous, mostly less than 2 inches long, all but 

 the lanceolate uppermost ones loosely sheathing the stem; bracts 

 linear-lanceolate, all but the uppermost exceeding the greenish 

 flowers, which are numerous, in a long, rather dense spike; lat- 

 eral sepals linear-oblong, 4 Hues long, the upper ovate ; lip linear 

 or linear-lanceolate, entire, rather acute, nearly a half inch long, 

 shorter than the spur; anther retuse ; pedicels of the pollen masses 

 slender; glands orbicular; capsule oblong, 6-8 lines long, sessile; 

 root fleshy-fibrous. 



"Dry southward slopes of the Pinos Altos Mountains, New 



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