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nearly sessile, 2 lines long, equaling the roughened stigma ; capsule oblong, re- 

 flexed, 8 to 15 lines long. 



Marin Co. ; Del Norte Co., thence easterly to Lassen Co. Southern Oregon. 



Locs. Mt. Tamalpais, Edith M. Wickes; Siskiyou Mts., Blasdale 1077; Gasquets, Del 

 Norte Co., Davy ; Sisson, Hall $ Babcoclc 4043 ; Mt. Dyer, Lassen Co., E. M. Austin. 



Eef. CYPRIPEDIUM CALIFORNICUM Gray, Proc. Am. Aead. 7:389 (1867), type loc. Eed 

 Mt., n.w. Mendocino Co., Bolander. 



3. C. fasciculatum Kell. Stems slender, 2 to 10 inches high, pubescent, 

 scariously sheathed at base ; leaves 2, nearly opposite, ovate to nearly orbicular, 

 2 to 4 inches long, pale green, with 3 prominent ribs beneath; flowers solitary 

 or 2 to several in a small terminal cluster; sepals and petals lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 6 to 12 lines long, greenish-brown with brown veins ; lateral sepals wholly 

 united or very nearly so; lip depressed-ovate, greenish-yellow with brown or 

 purplish margin, 4 to 6 lines long; sterile anther oblong, obtuse, equaling the 

 stigma. 



Dry open hillsides : Santa Cruz Co. ; Plumas Co. to Del Norte Co. North to 

 "Washington. 



Locs. Glenwood, aec. Eastwood; Plumas Co., JR. M. Austin] Butte Valley, E. M. Austin 

 198. 



Eefs. CYPRIPEDIUM FASCICULATUM Kell.; Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 17:380 (1882), type loe. 

 White Salmon Eiver, Wash., Suksdorf; Eastwood, Muhl. 3:97 (1907). 



2. CYTHEREA Salisb. 



Low herb with a corm and coral-like roots. Stem scape-like, sheathed by a 

 few scale-like leaves, a single petioled leaf at base and a single drooping terminal 

 flower. Flowers large, showy. Sepals and petals similar, equal, distinct; lip 

 sac-like, terminating in 2 short spurs protruding from beneath a winged margin ; 

 upper side of sac inside with 3 densely ciliate ridges running from the opening 

 towards the spurs, with 2 short spurs below the expanded apex. Column broadly 

 winged, almost oval, concave, and petal-like; anther hemispherical, borne just 

 below the summit, opening by a lid. Species 1, North America, Europe. (Sur- 

 name of Venus.) 



1. C. bulbosa House. CALYPSO. Stem 4 to 5 inches high, the sheathing 

 scales 1 to 2 inches long ; leaf ovate, cordate or truncate at base, l 1 ^ to 2*4 inches 

 long; petiole % to l 1 /^ inches long; sepals and petals rose-purple, sometimes pale, 

 linear-lanceolate, 9 lines long; lip as long or slightly longer, ovate-inflated, red- 

 dish brown and mottled. 



Bogs or in leaf -mold in redwood or pine forests from Marin Co. to Siskiyou 

 and Del Norte cos. North to Alaska and east across the continent. 



Locs. Bolinas Kidge ace. Eastwood ; Cazadero, Davy 1652 ; Mendocino, Mary G-: Clark ; 

 Sherwood Valley, C. W. Bradford; Carrville, Trinity Co., Helen Macllvain; Hupa, Chandler 

 1280; Shackelford Creek, w. Siskiyou Co., Butler 1512; Crescent City, Goddard 317. 



Eefs. CYTHEREA BULBOSA House, Bull. Torr. Club 32:382 (1905). Cypripedium ~bulboswm 

 L. Sp. PI. 951 (1753), type European. Calypso borealis Salisb.; Davy, Erythea 4:104 (1896) ; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 134 (1901). Calypso lulbosa Oakes, Cat. Ver. PI. 28 (1842), f. 

 occidentalis Holz. Contrib. TL S. Nat. Herb. 3:251 (1895). C. occidentalis Heller, Bull. Torr. 

 Club 25:193 (1898). 



3. HABENARIA Willd. REIN-ORCHIS 



Stems erect, leafy at least at base, solitary from fleshy tuber-like roots. 

 Flowers greenish, yellowish, or white, in a terminal spike or raceme. Sepals 

 equal, the lateral mostly spreading, the petals a trifle smaller. Lip spreading 

 or drooping, in ours entire, produced at base into a long slender spur. Column 

 very short. Anther-sacs more or less divergent. Species 300, all continents. 

 (Latin habena, a thong or rein of a horse, on account of the shape of the spur 

 in some species.) 



