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anthers 2, on short filaments, one on each side of the column below the stigma; 

 sterile anther conspicuous, roundish or ovate, situated on the upper side and 

 over-arching the stigma. (Latin Cypris, Venus, and pes, a foot, the saccate 

 lip a fit buskin for the goddess.) 



1. C. montanum Dougl. Rough-pubescent with short glandular hairs, 1 

 to 2 ft. high; leaves elliptic- to narrowly-ovate, the largest 5 or 6. in. long and 

 3 in. broad; flowers 1 to 3, shortly pediceled; sepals and wavy-twisted petals 

 linear-lanceolate, 1% to 2 in. long; lower sepals united almost to the apex, 

 only the lanceolate-subulate tips free; upper petals elongated; lip 1 in. long, 

 dull white, veined with purple; sterile anther ovate, 4 lines long, on a slender 

 filament ; capsule erect or nearly so, oblong, 10 lines long. 



Woods, rare in our district and only near the coast: Coast Eanges from the 

 Santa Cruz Alts, northward; Sierra Nevada. 



C. califorxicum Gray of Mendocino Co. and the northern Sierra Nevada 

 has 3 to 6 flowers; sepals oblong, 6 to 7 lines long, the lower united to the 

 apex; upper petals linear, short; sterile anther rounded, nearly sessile. 



2. HABENARIA Willd. Reix-orchis. 



Stems erect, leafy at least at base, solitary from fleshy tuber-like roots. 

 Flowers greenish, yellowish, or white, in a terminal spike or raceme. Sepals 

 equal, the lateral mostly spreading, the petals a trifle smaller. Lip spreading 

 or drooping, in ours entire, produced at base into a long slender spur. Column 

 very short. Anther-sacs more or less divergent. (Latin habena, a thong or rein 

 of a horse, on account of the shape of the spur in some species.) 



Flowers greenish; dry hills. 



Lip ligulate; stems slender, naked, with 2 leaves at base 1. H. clegans. 



Lip triangular-ovate; stems cylindrical, leafy at base and with scale-like leaves 



above 2. H. michaclii. 



Flowers white or whitish, fragrant. 



Stem leafy; lip slender-lanceolate above the roundish base, much exceeding the sepals 



and petals; moist places 3. H. leucostachys. 



Stem leafy at base, scaly above; lip narrowly ovate, not exceeding the sepals or 

 petals 4. H. maritima. 



1. H. elegans Bolander. Wood Reix-orchis. Stem slender, 10 to 20 in. 

 high, with 2 (or sometimes 3) leaves at base; leaves lanceolate or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long, drying up or quite gone by flowering 

 time; spike slender, rather dense but not crowded, 4 to 7 in. long; flowers 

 small, light-green; bracts broadly subulate, acuminate, equaling the ovary; 

 perianth-segments 1% to 2 lines long; sepals oblong; petals and lip ligulate; 

 spur filiform, 4 or 5 lines long, equaling or exceeding the ovary; capsule oblong, 

 nearly sessile, 3 or 4 lines long. 



Dry Coast Range hillsides under oaks and other trees. 



2. H. michaelii Greene. Stem very thick and cylindrical, 1 ft. high or 

 less, leafy at base; cauline leaves triangular-ovate, thin, appressed, 4 to 9 

 lines long; spike rather dense, 2 1 y /> to 3 in. long; sepals and petals similar, 

 l'._. to 2 lines long; lip triangular-ovate, of about the same length; spur fully 

 1 :; longer than tin- ovary. 



Under oaks: Livermore; San Luis Obispo. 



3. H. leucostachys Wat-. Sierra Reix-orchis. Stem leafy. 1*5 to 2 



in. 



high; leaves linear or lanceolate, :; to B lines broad; flowers white, rather large, 

 in a dense or open spike which is 4 to s in. long; bracts linear-subulate, exceed- 

 ing the ovary; sepals oblong or oblong-ovate, ■") or I nerved, thin, 2 or 3 lines 

 long; petals lanceolate; lip Blender-lanceolate from ;i roundish-dijated base, 



