. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. 620 Rydberg : The American Species of Michigan: Long Lake, 1890, Bcardsley & Kofoid. Minnesota: Chisago Lake, 1892, B. C. Taylor. Wisconsin : Madison, S. H. Watso)i. 8. Limnorchis hyperborea (L.) Rydb.; Britton, xMan. II. X. St. 294, in part. 1901 Orchis hyperborea L. Mant. 121. 1767 ; Habenaria hyperborea R. Br. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2:5: 193. 1813 ; Plataiitlicra Jiypcrborca Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. PI. 287. 1835. Low and slender, —4 <^^^- l^ig^^ • tubers almost fleshy-fibrous, slightly thicker than the roots : lower leaves
. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. 620 Rydberg : The American Species of Michigan: Long Lake, 1890, Bcardsley & Kofoid. Minnesota: Chisago Lake, 1892, B. C. Taylor. Wisconsin : Madison, S. H. Watso)i. 8. Limnorchis hyperborea (L.) Rydb.; Britton, xMan. II. X. St. 294, in part. 1901 Orchis hyperborea L. Mant. 121. 1767 ; Habenaria hyperborea R. Br. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2:5: 193. 1813 ; Plataiitlicra Jiypcrborca Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. PI. 287. 1835. Low and slender, —4 <^^^- l^ig^^ • tubers almost fleshy-fibrous, slightly thicker than the roots : lower leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, 5-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad ; the upper lance- olate, acute : spike rather dense ; bracts linear- lanceolate, the lower slightly longer than the flowers : flowers light green, 8-12 mm. long: upper sepal broadly ovate, obtuse, 3-4mm. long ; lateral ones lanceolate: petals lanceolate, slightly shorter than the sepals ; lip lanceolate, obtuse, nearly 5 mm. long ; spur filiform, strongly curv^ed and a little ex- ceeding the lip. (Fig. 8.) In habit L. viridiflora and this species are much alike and the former would have been merged in the latter, if all the western speci- mens (/. e., L. viridiflora) seen, had not had more or less clavate spur, a character not seen in Icelandic, Greenlandic and eastern specimens. Type: " Islandia, K'dnigy Iceland: Gardas, 1888, Prof. & Airs. Sprague Smith. Canada : Big Swamp, 1866, /. Macoun. New Brunswick : Kennebeccosis, 1871,/. Fow/er. Vermont: Willoughby, 1892, //. H. Riisby. New York : Kirkville, Onondaga county, 1891, L. M. Cnder- ivood, 3155. § Behringianae: Low plants, dm. high : spike short and dense: flowers greenish-purple ; lip oblong-lanceolate; spur fulh' twice as long as the lip ; connective narrow. 9. Limnorchis Behringiana sp. nov. Stem low, dm. high, about 3-leaved : tubers elongated fusiform, about 5 mm. thick: lower leaf ovate-lanceolate, about 5 cm. long and —2 cm. wide ; the
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