ORCHIDACE.E 



X H. Canhyi DELAWARE, Sussex County 



"■Habenar'ia cristata x hlephariglottis? Intermediate in color, size of flowers, 

 openness of panicle, &c., between the two species." Swamp near Lewes, Del- 

 aware, in company with H. cristata and H. blephariglottis^ July 27, 1878, 

 Wm. M. Canby (16). 



H. hlephari- 27. H. blephariglottis Hook.} Exot. Fl. 2: t. 87 (1824); Lodd., 

 glottis Bot Cab. t. 925 (1824); Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3:690 (1826); 



Torr., Comp. 317 (1826); Sw., Adnot. Bot. 46 (1829); Beck, 

 Bot. ed. 1, 348 (1833); Gray, in Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 3: 

 230 (1836); Paxt., Mag. 2: 183 (1836); Torr., in Geol. k Nat. 

 Hist. Surv. N. Y. 174 (1840) ; Eaton &, JVr., N. A. Bot. ed. 8, 259 

 (1840); Dewey, Herbaeeous Pi. Mass. 198 (1840); Darby, Bot. 

 S. St. 527 (1866); Gray, Man. ed. 5, 502 (1867), ed. 6,509 (1890), 

 Field, For. & Gard. Bot. 325 (1868), rev. ed. 408 {1S95); Miller &, 

 Young,¥l Suffolk Co. L. 1. 13 (1874) ; Willis, Cat. N. J. 61 (1874) ; 

 Yale Cat. 45 (1878) ; J. Robinson, Fl. Essex Co. 108 (1880) ; Bnt- 

 ton, Prel. Cat. N. J. 94 (1881); Perkins, Gen. Cat. Vt. 37 (1882); 

 Dudley, Cayuga Fl. 96 {lS^Q);Gattinger, Tenn. Fl. 83 (1887); 

 Macoun, Cat. 4:19 (1888) ; Owen, PI. Nantucket 58 (1888) \Ben- 

 nett, PI. R. I. 43 (1888); Dame c§ Collins, Fl. Middlesex 103 

 (1888) ; Perkins, Fl. Vt. 278 (1888) ;i)if«co2^72, Check-list 53 (1889) ; 

 Britton, Cat. N. J. 235 (1889); Watson, Orch. Cult. ed. 1, 528 

 (1890), ed. 2, 528 (1895); Beal&, Wheeler, Fl. Mich. 607 (1891); 

 Fernald, in Portl. Cat. 64 (1892); Williams, Orch. Grow. Man. 

 ed. 7,417 {lS94>)',Baldw.,Orch, N. Eng. 113-115 {1S94>); Mora7i, 

 in Journ. des Orch. 6: 254 (1895); Britton &, Br., 111. Fl. 1: 465 

 f. 1108 (1896); Deane, Fl. Met. Park 79 (1896); Creevey, Fl. 



1 Hooker bases his species on Orchis blephariglottis Willd., but he figures the form which 

 was later segregated by Lindley as Platanthera holopetala. The consensus of opinion of 

 those who have done close field-work is that var. holopetala is untenable, all conditions of 

 petals from entire to fringed sometimes being found on the same spike. See Bulletin of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club 20: 86. Niles, in Bog-trotting for Orchids, designated a yellowish 

 form as var. holopetala. (A. A. E.) 



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