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vided, entire, and slightly saccate lip, entire petals, and by 
the complete absence of a spur (fig. C). This variety has 
maintained itself through several years, and seems deserving 
of record, as follows: 
Habenaria psycodes (L.) Sw., var. ecalcarata, n. var. 
Caulis 4-5 dm. altus, 3-4-foliatus ; foliis inferioribus lanceo- 
latis vel oblanceolatis, 1.5-2 dm. longis, 1.3-4.5 em. latis, 
superioribus gradatim reductis braeteiformibus; racemo cir- 
citer 12 em. longo, plus minusve secundo, bracteis lineari- 
lanceolatis floribus plerumque longioribus; floribus numerosis 
ecalearatis; sepalis oblongo-ellipticis са. 6 mm. longis, 2 mm. 
latis, obtusis; petalis lateralibus oblongis ad basim obliquis 
sepalis paulo brevioribus; labello oblongo indiviso integro 
parum saccato, marginibus non nihil insolutis; ovario 8-10 
mm. longo. 
Stem 4-5 dm. high, 3-4-foliate; lower leaves lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, 1.5-2 dm. long, 1.3-4.5 em. broad, the upper 
gradually reduced, passing into linear-lanceolate braets; in- 
florescence about 12 em. long, more or less secund; bracts 
linear-lanceolate, mostly longer than the flowers; flowers num- 
erous, ecalearate; sepals oblong-elliptic, about 6 mm. long, 
2 mm. wide, obtusish; lateral petals oblong-oblique at base, a 
little shorter than the sepals; lip oblong, undivided, entire, 
slightly saccate with somewhat infolded margins; ovary 8-10 
mm. long.—Near Bay View, Michigan, July, 1913, Dr. Charles 
Н. Swift (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. No. 701166), ТҮРЕ. 
The literature relating to the subject shows a number of 
parallel cases of variation in other species of Habenaria. 
Ogden! records a variety of H. ciliaris in which the lip is 
either entire or imperfectly fringed and the spurs are mostly 
lacking. About the same time Mr. Henry G. Jesup? described 
and illustrated an interesting variation in H. fimbriata in 
which the long and prominent spur of the species is lacking 
and the sepals and petals are entire and all alike except in 
two or three flowers on one of the spikes, where there was a 
slight suggestion of a fringed lip. In ‘Pflanzen-Teratologie,’ 
1 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 20:38. 1893. 
2 Bot. Gaz. 18:189. 1893. 
