ORCHIDACE^ 



H. blephari- coming shorter and passing into the bracts of the inflorescence; 



glottis var. spike ovate to oblong, 6-12 cm. long, 5-7 cm. in diameter; 

 flowers numerous, white; tube of the calyx 2-2.5 cm. long, the 

 sepals orbicular or nearly so, 7 mm. in diameter; petals oblanceo- 

 late, about 5 mm. long, from nearly entire to more or less 

 toothed at the apex; Up 12-15 mm. in length, narrowly oblong, 

 the claw 4-5 mm. long, the blade deeply fimbriate; spur curved, 

 narrowly cylindric, 4-5 cm. in length. 



"Collected on the edge of a sphagnum bog at Lake City, 

 Columbia Co. [Fla.], No. 2501, and observed at a number of 

 other places. It was distributed in my collection of 1894 under 

 No. 1700, as H. blephariglottis, from which it is abundantly 

 distinct, the larger flowers, longer spur, and deeply fimbriate lip 

 readily separating it." Nash, loc. cit. 



Although characteristic plants of this variety are easily sepa- 

 rable from the t}^e, intergrading forms occur which make any 

 attempt at distinction purely arbitrary. 



NORTH CAROLINA 



1847, Met Curtis (4). — Wet savannahs, eastern North Carolina, July and 



August, G. M. McCarthy (2, 16). 



Craven Co. : Newburn, July 31, 1898, Thos. H. Kearney, Jr. (no. 1939) (2); 



August 1, 1898, Kearney (no. 1979) (2). 



Cumberland Co. : Bogs near FayetteviUe, August 13, 1903 (Biltmore no. 



4966d) (5). 



New Hakover Co.: Wilmington, 1881, W. R. Smith (2). 



Brunswick Co.: August 15, 1884, McCarthy (2). 



SOUTH CAROLINA, Beaufort County 

 BlufFton, 1873, Dr. J. H. Mellichamp (16). 



GEORGIA, Chatham County 



Moist grassy pine baiTens, Savannah, August 17, 1900 (Biltmore no. 

 691b) (5). 



Charlton Co.: Sphagnum bog two miles east of Folkstone, August 12, 

 1902, R. M. Harper (no. 1508) (2, 3, 4). 



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