ORCHIDACE.E 



Mill. Diet. ed. 9, 2: no. 15 (1807), not O. habenaria Walt. Fl. H. macro- 

 Carol, (which is H. lacera). ceratitis 



Habenaria macroceras Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 692(1826); 

 Hook., in Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 2947 (1829); Lindl, Gen. & Sp. 

 Orch. 308 (1835); Paxt, Mag. 2: 183 (1836); «SY^wc?., Nomenel. 

 ed. 2, 1:717 (1841); ^. /??c/l, in Sagra Fl. Cub. 2: 249 (1850). 



Nemuranthes Habenaria Baf., Fl. TeUur. 2: 62 (1836). 



Habenaria Habenaria Small, Fl. Se. U. S. 316 (1903). 



"98. ORCHIS habenaria. Caulis pedalis. Folia ovato-ob- 

 longa, 10 vel ultra, sensim minora. Bractece ovatae, acuminatEe, 

 germinibus breviores. Germina polliearia. Petala 3 superiora 

 conniventia, subcrenata; lateralia 2 ovato-oblonga, patula. La- 

 bium tripartitum : intermedia lineari, petalis paulo longiore ; la- 

 teralibus duplo longioribus. Cornu filiforme, dependens, petaUs 

 10-plo longius." L., Amoen. Acad. loc. cit. 



The specimen in the Linnasan Herbarium is in an excellent 

 state of preservation. Its origin is not indicated by notes of any 

 kind. Walter's Orchis habenaria is conspecific with H. lacera. 



FLORIDA, Sumter County 



September 7, 1893, F. L. Lewton (4). 



Citrus Co. : August, 1898, J. A. Tait (2). 



Orange Co.: Oviedo, September, 1902, T. L. Mead (1). 



CUBA 



1860-4, C. Wright (no. 3308) (3, 4, 21). 



Pinar del Rio : Herradura, September 7, 1905, Van Hermann^no. 824) (1). 



JAMAICA 



1858, Mr. March (no. 1266) (3). 



MEXICO 



Pavon (19). 



Oaxaca: Mt. Alban, 5500 ft., August 15, 1894, C. G. Pringle (no. 

 5708) (3, 7) ; dry hills, valley of Oaxaca, alt. 5100-5800 ft., September 8, 

 1894, E. W. Nelson (no. 1246) (3). — El Fortin, 1700 m., September 19, 

 1897, C. Conzatti Sf G. Gonzales (no. 473) (1, 3). 



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