ORCHIDACE^ 



NEW JERSEY 



Quaker Bridge, William H. Leggett, July 7, 1864). 



DELAWARE 



Ellendale, Bayard Long^ June 23, 1909. 



NORTH CAROLINA 



Table Rock Mountain, J. K. Small Sf A. A. Heller 285, July 2, 1891. 

 Burke, M. A. Curtiss. Hickory, A. A. Heller, June 23, 1893. 1800 feet 

 altitude. Hot Springs, J. R. Churchill, June 9, 1899. 



SOUTH CAROLINA 



Santee Canal, H. W. Ravenel, May. Summerville, Dr. Janet Perkins, 

 April 29-May 10, 1918; Savannas, May 24, 1853. (Ex Herb. A. C. 

 Hexamer & F. H. Maier.) Bluffion, W. H. Mellichamp, 1886. 



GEORGIA 



Thomasville, Mrs. Augustus P. Taylor, May 1902. Bogs and swamps; 

 Waite (^ Vasey, June 1889. Bullock, R. M. Harper 883, June 11, 1901. 



ALABAMA 



Mobile County, W. S. Dukes, May 1905. 



FLORIDA V^ 



Apalachicola, May 1896. Distribution of duplicates of the Chapman 

 Herbarium (no. 780 b). Palatka, William M.Canby, April 1869. Arling- 

 ton River, G. Brown Goode, Summer, 1872. Jacksonville, A. H. Curtiss 

 2796., May. South Jacksonville, J. R. Churchill^ April 17, 1897. 



Summary 

 If, now, we sum up the salient characters relied on for the con- 

 clusions arrived at in the foregoing pages, we find, with regard 

 to the species of the northeastern United States, that the pol- 

 hnia furnish characters of great importance and give three 

 groups of species. Pogonia is first set aside by means of simple 

 pollen grains. The remaining groups have the pollen cohering in 

 tetrads. Triphora comes out because of the reticulated pollen 

 grains and rigidly attached anther, and is sharply differentiated 

 from its allies by means of its vegetative peculiarities and difFer- 



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