. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. about 5 mm. long ; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse : petals broadly lanceolate; blade of the lip ovate-hastate, distinctly auricled, and truncate at the base; spur filiform, two and a half times as long as the lip. (Fig. 32.) I have not seen the type of Gym- nadoiia longispica, which was de- scribed from a fragmentary specimen collected by Pratten, /. c, it consisted only of the upper portion without any leaves. Durand's species has been re- garded as P. UnalascJiensis but this cannot be so, for Gymnadenia long- ispica was de
. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. about 5 mm. long ; lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse : petals broadly lanceolate; blade of the lip ovate-hastate, distinctly auricled, and truncate at the base; spur filiform, two and a half times as long as the lip. (Fig. 32.) I have not seen the type of Gym- nadoiia longispica, which was de- scribed from a fragmentary specimen collected by Pratten, /. c, it consisted only of the upper portion without any leaves. Durand's species has been re- garded as P. UnalascJiensis but this cannot be so, for Gymnadenia long- ispica was described as having a spur longer than the ovary, which throws it out of P. UnalascJiensis. As the spike is described as long and lax it must have been either P. cicgans, P. Icptopetala or the species described here. As this is the only species with broad bracts, the name G. longispka must belong here, unless it is a species unknown to me. The only discrepancy is that the spur is described as clavate, which is scarcely the case. California: Mokelumne River, Mr. Rich ; Monterey, 1850, C. C. Parry (Mex. Bound. Surv.); Cucamonga Mts., 1881, 5. B. & IV. F. Parisli, 1157 ; Santa Monica range, 1892, H. E. Hasse. Fig. 32. 8. Piperia Michaeli (Greene) Habcnaria clegans Boland. (Cat. PI. San Franc. 29) ; S Bot. Calif. 2: 133. 1880; not PlatantJicra cicgans Lindl Habenaria Michaeli Greene, Man. Bay- Reg. Bot. 306. 1894; Montoliveia elegans Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. i : 106, in part as to synonym, 1900; Piperia elegans Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 28 : 270, in part as to synonym. Stem stout, at flowering time leafless, 2-3 dm. high : tuber ellipsoid, 2-4 cm. lonQ-, ; cm. wide: basal leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, about dm. long, 4 cm. wide, withering before blooming ; stem-leaves ous, small and bract-like, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acu Wats. 1835;. Fig. 33. numer- minate,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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