ORCHIDACE.E 



inch in length; raceme six inches long, 8-10-flowered: upper H. lucceca- 

 sepal ovate-elliptic, obtusish, four lines long: petals deeply two- P^^^^^ 

 parted, upper segment linear, falcate, obtuse, dilated at the base, 

 ascending, nearly equalling the sepals ; lower segment filiform, 

 about an inch in length; labellum three-parted to the base; the 

 outer segments about fifteen lines long; the middle one hnear 

 obtuse, a third to a half as long; spur clavate, free, 14-17 lines 

 in length : ovary angled and obsoletely winged, about equalling 

 the bracts ; the two appendages of the stigma deeply bifid ; the 

 segments linear, spreading laterally, and curved ascending, re- 

 tuse. Collected on mountains of the Cape Region of Lower Cali- 

 fornia, by T. S. Brandegee, September 16, 1893. 



"A stout species resembling in habit H. Michauxii, Nutt., of 

 the southern states, but differing in its broader leaves, longer 

 segments of petal and lip, and shorter more clavate spur." Fer- 

 nald, loc. cit. 



MEXICO, Lower California 



Cape Region mountains, September 16, 1893, T. S. Brandegee (3), (type). 



45. H. quinqueseta {Michx.) Sw., Adnot. Bot. 46 (1829); H. quinque- 

 Eaton &, Wr,, N. A. Bot. ed. 8, 260 (1840) ; 3fohr, PI. Life Ala. *^^^ 

 455 (1901); Small Fl. Se. U. S. 315 (1903). 



Orchis quinqueseta Michx., Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 155 (1803); 

 Pers., Syn. PI. 2:506 (1807); Pursh, Fl. 2: 586 (1814); Raf., 

 Neogenyton 4 (1825). Not O. quinqueseta Green Cat. N. Y. 120 

 (1814). 



Habenaria Michauxii Nutt., Gen. 2: 189 (1818); Elliott, 

 Sketch 2: 489 (1824); Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orch. 309 (1835); 

 Steud., Nomencl. ed. 2, 1 : 717 (1841), excl. syn. Kunth; Chapm., 

 Fl. S. U. S. ed. 1, 461 (1860), ed. 2, 461 (1884), ed. 3, 487 (1897) ; 



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