Vol. 3 No. 4 



TORREYA 



April, 1903 



NOTES UPON THE ORCHIDS OF CENTRAL 

 NEW YORK 



By Homer D. House 



Central New York, and especially Onondaga County, has been 

 frequently commented upon for its many species of ferns. A 

 comparison of the orchid flora of the same region with that given 

 in various local floras of the state, makes evident the fact that 

 central New York has not only a rich fern flora but possesses also 

 a large and varied orchid flora. In individuals the orchids are 

 not so abundant as the ferns, but the number of species reported 

 from this region is equal to, or larger than, that of any other 

 section of New York. Paine, in the Flora of Oneida Count)'', 

 1864, recorded forty-one species for all of New York west of 

 Albany. Clute records twenty-nine species for the Susquehanna 

 region ; Dudley, thirty-five species in the Cayuga Lake region. 

 Beckwith and Macauley cite forty-one species from western New 

 York. From these figures it is seen that the orchids appear to be 

 more abundant as regards species in the northern and western parts 

 of the state. For the purposes of this article, the region known as 

 central New York may be limited to that part of the state north 

 of the Susquehanna divide in the counties of Onondaga, Madison 

 and Oneida, also including portions of Oswego and Herkimer 

 counties. This area would have Little Falls on the extreme east 

 and have its western limits a few miles west of Syracuse. 



The names included herein are in most cases based upon acces- 

 sible herbarium specimens. Of such specimens, most of those in 

 the herbarium of Columbia University were collected by Pro- 



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