456 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



JAPAN. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Newfoundland, Quebec-, and Ontario; New 

 England west to Minnesota, south to Florida and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: All over the State. Bogs and pine-barren swamps. Lawrence, Cull- 

 man, Montgomery, Autauga, Wilcox, Clarke, Washington. Mobile, and Baldwin 

 counties. Flowers pale purplish. April, May. Frequent. 



Type locality : " Hal), in Virginia, Canada.'' 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Fogonia divaricata (L.) R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5 : 203. 1S13. 



SPREADING PIHJONIA. 



Arethitsa divaricata L. Sp. PI. 2 : 951. 1753. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 4i>6. Gray, Man . ed. 6, 505. Chap. Fl. 458. 



Carolinian and Louisianiau areas. From the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf 

 States north to eastern Tennessee and New Jersey. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Borders of ponds, springy places; 

 most frequent in the low pine barrens of the Coast plain. Escambia County. Tnsca- 

 loosa County (E. A. Smith). Mobile and Baldwin counties. Flowers flesh-color. 

 April, May; frequent with the last. 



Type locality: "Hah. in Americae borealis palndosis. " 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Pogonia verticillata (Willd.) Nutt. Gen. 2 : 192. 1818. WIIORLKD P<H;ONIA. 



Arethusa verticillata Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 81. 1805. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 497. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 505. Chap. Fl. 458. 



Alleghenian and Louisianian areas. Ontario ; New England, Eastern States west 

 to Michigan, Ohio Valley to the Gulf States; from Florida to western Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Pine belt. Shady woods. Tuscaloosa County .(/<,'. A. Smith). 

 March; rare. 



Type locality : Hab. in Peusylvania, Marylandia. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GYROSTACHYS Pers. Ryu. 2 : 511. 1807. 

 (SPIRANTHES L. C. Rich. Mem. Mus. Par. 4 : 42. 1818.) 



Fifty or more species, perennials, widely distributed over warmer and temperate 

 regions. Japan, Europe. Atlantic America, 10 to 12. 



Gyrostachys cernua (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 664. 1891. 



DROOPING LADIES' TRESSES. 



Ophrys cernua L. Sp. PI. 2 : 946. 1753 



Spiranthes cernua L. C. Rich. Orchid. Ann. 37. 1817. 



Ell. Sk. 2:492. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 502. Chap. Fl. 462. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:424. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia to Ontario; New England, west 

 to Minnesota, Nebraska, Missouri, and Arkansas, south through the Ohio Valley to 

 South Atlantic and Gulf States. 



ALABAMA: Over the State. Low prairies and damp pine barrens. Cullmau, Tus- 

 caloosa, Escambia, Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers white. October, Novem- 

 ber; frequent. 



Type locality : " Hab. in Virginia, Canada." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Gyrostachys gracilis (Bigelow) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2 : 664. 1891. 



SLENDER LADIES' TRESSES. 



Neottia fjracilia Bigelow, Fl. Bost. ed. 2 : 322. 1824. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 503. Chap. Fl. 462. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 424. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario to 

 Lake Winnipeg and Mackenzie River; New England west to Minnesota, south to 

 Texas and Florida. 



ALABAMA: All over the State. Most frequent in dry pine barrens. Cullinan, 

 Chilton, Washington, Clarke, Choctaw. Mobile, and Baldwin counties. Flowers 

 white. April to June; frequent. 



Type locality : "In dry hilly woods [near Boston]." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



