258 ORCHIDACEM 



NEW SPECIES AND NAMES OF AMERICAN 

 ORCHIDACE^E 



SPIRANTHES Rich. 



S. LUCIDA (H. H. Eaton) comb. nov. ; Neottia plantaginea 

 Rafinesque Am. Month. Mag. 2 : 206 (1818) ; 8. cernua var. lati- 

 folia Torrey Comp. 320 (1826) ; N. (Gyrostachys) lucida H. H. 

 Eaton Transylv. Journ. Med. 5 : 107 (1832) ; 8. latifolia Torrey 

 ex Lindley Orch. PL 467 (1840) ; 8. cestivalis Oakes in Thomp. 

 Hist. Vermont (reprint) 200 (1842), not Rich.; 8. plantaginea 

 Torrey Fl. N. Y. 2: 284 (1843), not Lindley Orch. PI. 468 

 (1840); Gyrostachys latifolia Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. pt. 2, 664 

 (1891) ; G. plantaginea Britton & Brown 111. Fl. 1: 470, f. 1122 

 (1896), not Kuntze. 



As the first specific name of this plant is not available, owing 

 to the 8piranthes plantaginea published by Lindley, it becomes 

 necessary to adopt the name given by H. H. Eaton in the Transyl- 

 vania Journal of Medicine in 1832, and this gives Spiranthes 

 lucida as a new combination. 



S. SALTENSIS sp. nov. Aff. 8. Llaveanai Lindl. Herba hys- 

 terantha, usque ad 32 cm. alta, subvalida, pubescens. Folia? 

 JBractea? tubulares, vaginantes, supra dilatatae, acuminatse, acutse. 

 Racemus floribus circa 8 magnis nutantibus. Bracteai inflores- 

 centiai ovarium superantes, 1.1-1.7 cm. longae, ovato-lanceolatae, 

 striato-nervosae in sicco, in mucronem gracilem acuminatum acutum 

 ovarium excedentem productae. Ovarium elongatum, turbinatum, 

 fere erectum. Perianthium valde deflexum, 16-19 mm. longum. 

 8epala lateralia 3-nervia, 1.7 cm. longa, lineari-oblonga, acuta. 

 Sepalum dorsale 3-nervium, 1.8-1.9 cm. longum, lineari-oblon- 

 gum, acutum. Petala falciformia, ad medium dilatata, ad basim 



