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This beautiful fringed orchis is not rare in the Adirondack region 

 although published reports of its distribution are few. It occurs 

 in an old beaver meadow near Fourth lake, Herkimer county 

 (House and Killip, 1917) and Dr J. V. Haberer 11 (p. 95) reports 

 it from White lake outlet and from the headwaters of Black river 

 near North lake. 



Arethusa bulbosa Linnaeus 



Apparently as abundant throughout the northern, central and 

 western portions of the State as it is upon the sandy coastal plain, 

 although more locally distributed. Paine 2 (p. 137) reports it from 

 Schenectady (Pearson), near Utica and in the Oriskany swamp 

 (Gray), beyond Fort Bull, Junius, Seneca county (Sartwell) and 

 in Bergen swamp. In Bergen swamp, Genesee county, it is very 

 abundant. It was collected there by H. D. House and E. P. Killip 

 and also at Lily marsh, South New Haven, Oswego county, Mud 

 lake near Hannibal, Oswego county, and at Mud pond, near Zurich, 

 Wayne county. It was also collected at Lily marsh by C. S. Shel- 

 don (July 5, 1877, state herbarium). The Lodi swamp locality at 

 Syracuse reported by J. H. Wibbe 31 , and by H. D. House 32 , no longer 

 exists. 



Ophrys australis (Lindley) House 

 (Figure 1) 



Sphagnum bog surrounding Mud pond, near Zurich, Wayne 

 county (H. D. House and E. P. Killip, July 2, 1917). The dis- 

 tribution of this rare orchis in New York has been previously 

 referred to by the writer. 33 Recent collections, however, of this 

 and other species of the same genus seem to indicate the rather 

 interesting fact that they are all known chiefly from regions outside 

 the Adirondack and Catskill mountains. In fact I can find no 

 records of any species of Ophrys (Listera) in the Catskill 

 mountains ; and of the many records for Ophrys cor data, 

 only two are in Essex county, while the third species, Ophrys 

 convalarioides, has been found only at Turin, Lewis 

 county 34 and at Newport, Herkimer county 28 (p. 380), neither 

 locality within the Adirondack mountains, although Mrs A. M. 

 Smith 35 reports it from the Adirondack League Club tract. 



The first record of O p h r y s australis in New York was 



31 Torrey Bot. Club Bui. io, p. 46. 1883. 



32 Torreya, 3 : 52. 1903. 



33 N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 176, p. 26. 1915. 



34 38th Ann. Rep't N. Y. State Mus., p. 83. 1885. 

 "imith. List of Plants Found on the Adirondack League 



Club Tract, p. 52. 



