ORCHID FAMILY. 



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incurved, terminating in a disk-like stigma. Fertile 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; 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 from the Santa 

 Cruz Mountains northward: Marin Co.; Skaggs Springs; Mendocino 

 Co. (from the coast to Round Valley); Humboldt Co.; Sierra Nevada. 



C. Californicum Gray of Mendocino Co. and the northern Sierras 

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

 to the apex; sterile anther rounded, nearly sessile. 



2. HABENARIA Willd. Rein-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. (Name from the 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, nnked, wiih 2 leaves at base . . 1. //. elegans. 

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



leaves above . . . * 2. H. Michaeli. 



Flowers white or whitish, fragrant. 

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



t lie sepals and petals; moist places 3. H leucostachys. 



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

 or petals 4. if. maritima. 



1. H. elegans Bolander. Wood Rein-orchis. Stem slender. 10 

 to 20 in. high, with 2 (or sometimes 3?) leaves at base; leaves lan- 

 ceolate 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 hillsides under oaks and other trees. Coast Ranges from 

 Monterey to Berkeley; Marin Co.; Napa Co.; the Vaca Mountains; 

 and Mt. Shasta. June. 



2. H. Michaeli Greene. Stem very thick and cylindrical, 1 ft. 



