ORCHIDACE^ 



H. Hookeri Gray's copy to which reference has already been made. On the 

 last page of the cover of the 1836 issue the following notice is 

 printed: "The delay which has occurred in the publication of 

 the present volume has been owing to a series of difficulties and 

 misfortunes beyond the power of the Lyceum to guard against. 

 The remaining numbers, comprising a Monog7^aph of the Cyper- 

 acece of North America by Dr. Torrey, are now in the press, and 

 will be speedily issued." Although Gray's paper was not regu- 

 larly published before April, 1836, Lindley, in September, 1835, 

 in his Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants, referred 

 to the Annals, and adopted the specific name Hookeri. This 

 leads naturally to the supposition that Lindley had a copy of the 

 A nnals similar to Gray's, and that originally Gray had adopted 

 Hookeii and not Hookeriana. This also leads to the supposition 

 that the first impression of Gray's paper may have been in the 

 form of proof-sheets and not a valid publication. As Lindley's 

 Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants on this assumption 

 antedated Gray's paper in the second issue of the Annals, it would 

 seem that Hookeri must stand as the correct name of the spe- 

 cies. I have suggested 1835 as the date of the first impression 

 of Gray's paper, as it was not read until December, 1834. 



CANADA, Hb. Pursh (3). 



NOVA SCOTIA, GuYSBORouGH County 



Rich woods, Pirates' Cove, July 6 and 7, 1883, J. Macoun (3, 6); July 7, 



1884, Macoun (16). 



Annapolis Co. : Annapolis, Macoun {?) (6). 



NEW BRUNSWICK, Victoria County 



Mountain back of Clair's, July 11, 1904, A. A. Eaton (no. 92) (1). 

 Northumberland Co. :Little Miramichi River, July 11, \S^9,, J . Fowler {%). 

 Kent Co.: In swamps and bogs, Bass River, July 20, 1867, Fowler (6). 

 York Co. : Boggy places, Campbellton, July, 1877, R. Chalmers (6). 



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