ORCHIDACE^ 



Bot. S. St. 527 (1866); i^m*., Biol. Cent. Am. 3: 306 (1884); H. repens 



Wood <% McCarthy, Wilmington Fl. 50 {IS^Q); Krdnzl, in 



Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 16: 135 (1893); Cogn., in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3, 



pt. 4, 91 (1893); Kranzl, Orch. Gen. et Sp. 1: 317 (1898), excl. 



Gardner no. 3990 ; Mohr,V\. Life Ala. 455 (1901) ;/?o/re, in Hook. 



Ic. PI. t. 2686 (1901); Small, Fl. Se. U. S. 315 (1903); /farper, 



in Plant World 6: 165 {IQ0^)\ Ames, Orch. Fl. Fla. 11 (1904), 



Orchidacese fasc. 1: 51, t. 14 (1905); Rusby, in Journ. N. Y. 



Bot. Gard. 7: 112, f. 3 (1906); Cogn., in Urban Symb. Antill. 



6: 305 (1909). 



Orchis lacera Elliott, Sketch 2: 484 (1824) in part (as to 

 plant of Dr. Macbride from St. Stephens). — O. repens Raf., 

 Neogenyton 4 (1825) nomen sub Mesicera; Wood, Am. Bot. & 

 Flor. 328 (1871). 



Habenaria tricuspis A. Rich., in Sagra Fl. Cub. 2: 249 

 (1850); Griseh., Cat. PI. Cub. 271 {\Sm)',Sauv., Fl. Cub. 233 

 (1873). 



Platanthera repens Wood, Class-book 685 (1861). 



Habenaria radicans Griseb., Cat. PI. Cub. 271 (1866) 

 (Wright no. 3309).— ?H. maxillaris i?^2cA6. /, Beitr. Orch. 

 Cent. Am. 61 (1866), not Lindl 



"2. ^repens. Root creeping; leaves and bractes lanceolate, 

 acute ; lip 3-parted, lateral segments setaceous ; spur scarcely the 

 length of the germ, adscendent; inner petals biparted, the lower 

 segment setaceous. Hab. On the margins of ponds near Savan- 

 nah in Georgia and in Carolina; subaquatic. Obs. Root peren- 

 nial, fibrous, creeping, base of the stem also radicant; fibres 

 lanuginous. Stem leafy, about 12 inches high. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, approximate, in the spike diminishing to bractes, 

 which are about equal wdth the flowers. Spike linear, 3 to 5 

 inches long. Flowers yellowish-green, numerous, but not dense. 



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