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Vicinity of Etah, Aug. 6-18, 1908, Goodsell 34 and 44. 
Taraxacum phymatocarpum Vahl. An arctic species, confined 
to Greenland and Ellesmere Land. 
Vicinity of Cape Saumarey, Aug. 8, 1908, Goodsell 29; vicinity 
of Etah, Aug. 6—18, 1908, Goodsell 35. 
Taraxacum pumilum Dahlst. Ап arctic species, confined to 
the arctic American archipelago. 
Grant Land, July, 1906, L. J. Wolf. 
Taraxacum hyparcticum Dahlst. An arctic species, ranging 
from northwestern Greenland through the arctic archipelago, 
along the arctic coast to Point Barrow, Alaska. 
Grant Land, July, 1906, L. J. Wolf. 
NEw YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
TWO SPECIES OF HABENARIA FROM CUBA 
Bv OAKES AMES 
Habenaria Brittonae sp. nov. |n general habit similar to Н. 
alata Hook. 6 dm. tall, slender. Leaves linear-oblong to linear- 
lanceolate passing gradually into the foliose acute bracts of the 
stem. Касете 12 cm. long, slender, rather densely flowered, 
the bracts op equalling or exceeding the flowers. Lateral 
sepals 6.5 т ong, lanceolate, acute, with the midnerve pro- 
duced nd the point into a setiform tip, margin ра 
denticulate. Upper sepal broadly ovate, 5 mm. long, otherw 
similar to the lateral. Petals subsimple or obscurely baud. 
Posterior division linear-oblong, rounded at the tip, obtuse, 5 mm. 
long, about 1 mm. wide, recurved-falcate, anterior division in 
the form of an obtuse, basal protuberance or tooth.  Labellum 
tripartite, lateral divisions shorter than the middle one, setaceous, 
about 3 mm. long, middle division linear, 6 mm. long, obtuse, 
convex, the margins strongly deflexed. Stigmatic processes 
longer than the anther canals, flattened suborbicular. Spur 
longer than the labellum, about equalling the ovary or shorter, 
clavate, subacute, about 1 cm. long. 
Folia lineari oblonga, alterna, (?) 4-5. Bracteae caulis vagi- 
nantes super folia lineari-lanceolatae, acutae, infra folia obtusae. 
Bracteae inflorescentiae lanceolatae, acutae, ovaria longitudine 
excedentes. Sepala lateralia lanceolata, ad apicem cuspide 
munita. Sepalum superius ovatum, obtusum. Petala sub- 
