ORCHIDACE^ 



ered. Flowers 10-20, yellowish-green, erect or a little spreading, H. Hookeri 



subsessile. Bractece lanceolate, nearly as long as the flowers. 



Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute ; the upper one connivent with the 



petals, erect ; the lateral ones deflexed, so as to meet posteriorly. 



Petals a little shorter than the sepals, hnear, very acute, dilated 



at the base. Lip lanceolate, acuminate, scarcely as long as the 



ovarium, standing forward and somewhat incurved. Spur straight, 



acute, depending, about twice the length of the ovarium. Cells 



of the anther linear-clavate, widely separated at the base by 



the broad stigmatic surface. Ovarium J- J of an inch in length, 



straight." Gray, loc. at. 



The variety oblongifolia is surely only an individual variation. 

 There is a specimen in the Gray Herbarium with leaves about 

 1 dm. long by about 4 cm. wide, collected at Little Falls, N. Y., 

 by J. A. Paine, which is typical H. Hookeri var. oblongifolia. 



In the third volume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural 

 History of New York, on page 229, Gray pubhshed, presumably 

 for the first time, the combination Habenaria Hookeriana, re- 

 ferring to " Torrey, Herb.'' as authority for the name. In the 

 library of the Gray Herbarium there is a copy of Gray's paper 

 in quite a different edition of the Annals, in which the typo- 

 graphy and pagination are not in agreement with the regular 

 issue and in which, on page 228, Habenaiia Hookeri is given in- 

 stead of H. Hookeriana. This copy is accompanied by a manu- 

 script note which states that the first impression was destroyed 

 by fire. In my library there is a copy of the Annals bound up 

 with the original covers. According to this copy it would appear 

 that numbers 5, 6, and 7, in the last of which Gray's paper was 

 published, were issued simultaneously in April, 1836. Beginning 

 with these numbers the typography of the work changes. In the 

 preceding numbers the typography is in agreement with that of 



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