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1. C. maculata Raf. Stems 8 to 13 inches high; raceme 2 to 7 inches long; 

 sepals and petals brownish-purple, 3-nerved, 3 to 4 lines long; lateral sepals 

 united at base with the foot of the column forming a short (1 line long) spur 

 which is adnate to the ovary; lip white, conspicuously spotted with purple, 

 broadly ovate and somewhat convex, 3-lobed by a deep cleft on each side ; middle 

 lobe rounded, the edge turned up a little on the sides and denticulate at apex; 

 capsule % inch long. 



Mountain woods, mostly 3000 to 6000 feet: cismontane Southern California, 

 north through the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada to Siskiyou Co. North to 

 British Columbia ; east to the Atlantic. 



Locs. Southern California: Palomar, San Diego Co., McClatchie; Tauquitz Valley, Hall 

 2345; Little Green Valley, San Bernardino Mts., G. E. Hall 15. Coast Ranges: Burlingame, 

 M. S. Baker; Mt. St. Helena, Jepson; Castle Peak, ne. Mendocino Co., Jepson; Buck Mt., 

 Humboldt Co., Tracy 4191; Buckeye Mt., Trinity Co., Yates 460; Green Pt. Ranch, Hupa 

 Road, Jepson 1947; Sisson, Jepson. Sierra Nevada: Round Mdw., Giant Forest, Jepson 662; 

 Huntington Lake, A. L. Grant 1415a; Wawona, Jepson 4306; Cedar Creek, upper Stanislaus 

 River, Jepson 6527 ; Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. Grant 575 ; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson ; 

 Sierraville, Alma Ames 13; Big Mts., Modoe Co., M. S. Baker. 



Refs. CORALLORRHIZA MACULATA Raf. Am. M. Mag. 2:119 (1817); Greene, Lean. 1:237 

 (1906). Cladorhiza maculata Raf. I.e. 1:429 (1817), type loc. Philadelphia. Corallorrliiza 

 multiflora Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 3:138, pi. 7 (1823), type from eastern U. S. ; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 134 (1901); Gruenberg, Bull. Torr. Club 36:167 (1909). 



2. C. mertensiana Bong. Stems 6 to 20 inches high ; raceme more open than 

 in C. maculata, its axis lurid-purple ; flowers reddish tinged or veined with purple ; 

 sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, 3 or 4 lines long; upper sepal erect, covering 

 closely the two petals; lower sepals deflexed-spreading ; spur 1 line long, the 

 lower half free from the ovary; lip dark red, oblong, obtuse, entire or with a 

 tooth on one or both sides near the base, clawed below, thin and concave, the 

 ridges only slightly prominent ; capsule 5 to 8 lines long, attenuate into the short 

 slender pedicel. 



Woods, Humboldt and Siskiyou cos. North to Alaska. 



Locs. Bald Mt., Humboldt Co., Davy & Blasdale 5621; Redwood Creek, Humboldt Co., 

 Jepson 1984; Trinity Summit, Manning 15%; Mt. Eddy, Siskiyou Co., E. B. Copeland 3926. 



Refs. CORALLORRHIZA MERTENSIANA Bong. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 2:165 (1832), 

 type loc. Sitka, Mertens. 



3. C. striata Lindl. (Fig. 60h.) Stems many in a cluster, 8 to 20 inches 

 high, with 3 or 4 sheathing leaves ; raceme 2 to 8 inches long ; sepals and petals 

 somewhat flesh-colored, striately 3-nerved with purple or reddish brown lines, 

 about 6 lines long, approximated on upper side of flower and curved over column 

 in such a way as to form a sort of hood ; lateral sepals oblique ; lip quite entire, 

 its edge a little upturned ; spur none but the base of the perianth prominently 

 gibbous over the ovary ; capsule 6 to 9 lines long. 



Woods along the coast from Santa Cruz Co. to Humboldt Co. ; Sierra Nevada 

 and northerly to Modoc and Siskiyou cos. North to British Columbia and east 

 to Ontario. 



Locs. Burlingame, Inez Smith; Camp Taylor, Marin Co., Sonne; Mt. Tamalpais, Davy; 

 Cahto, Mendocino Co., Davy 6612; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 4131; Trinity Summit trail, 

 Davy 5818; Humbug Mt., Siskiyou Co., Butler 1292; Modoc Co., M. S. Baker; Prattville, 

 Plumas Co., R. M. Austin; Blue Canon, Placer Co., H. A. Walker 1221; Calaveras Big Trees, 

 A. L. Grant; Strawberry, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6499; Eight-mile, Wawona, Jepson 4289; 

 Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Hall <$ Chandler 108. Not yet reported from Tulare Co. 



Refs. CORALLORRHIZA STRIATA Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 534 (1840), type from northwest 

 America, Douglas; Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4, pi. 25 (1857). C. bigelovii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 12:275 (1877), based on material from the "Sierra Nevada and mountains of n. California."; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 134 (1901). 



JEPSON, FLORA OP CALIFORNIA, vol. 1, pt. 6, pp. 249-336, Oct. 24, 1921. 



