. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. 616 Rydberc; : The American Species of damp wooded hillsides at an altitude of 2700-3000 m. The fol- lowing specimens belong here : Colorado: Iron Mountain, i goo, Rydbcrg & ] rccland, 6414 (type in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); Georgetown, 1878, M. E. Jones, J14; Como, South Park, 1895, C. S. Crandall; Mouth of Chey- enne Caiion, 1896, E. A. 3. LiMNORCHis BRACHYPETALA Rvdb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 2: 161. 1901. Stem slender, striate, 4-5-leaved, 1-2 dm. long : tubers elon- gated fusiform, 7-8 mm. thick : lower leaves oblong,
. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. Plants. 616 Rydberc; : The American Species of damp wooded hillsides at an altitude of 2700-3000 m. The fol- lowing specimens belong here : Colorado: Iron Mountain, i goo, Rydbcrg & ] rccland, 6414 (type in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); Georgetown, 1878, M. E. Jones, J14; Como, South Park, 1895, C. S. Crandall; Mouth of Chey- enne Caiion, 1896, E. A. 3. LiMNORCHis BRACHYPETALA Rvdb. Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 2: 161. 1901. Stem slender, striate, 4-5-leaved, 1-2 dm. long : tubers elon- gated fusiform, 7-8 mm. thick : lower leaves oblong, obtuse, 4-6 cm. long, strongly nerv^ed ; the upper lan- ceolate, acute: spike short, 5 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, the lower 2-3 times as long as the flowers : flowers greenish or brownish, 8 mm. long : upper sepals about 2 mm. long, nearly orbicular, slightl}' trun- cate and indistinctly 3-toothed at the apex ; lateral sepals spreading, oblong, obtuse, nearly 3 mm. long: petals round ovate, acute, slightly over i mm. long; lip very narrow, a little dilated at the base and near the apex, acute : spur clavate, almost saccate, nearly straight, about equalling the lip in length. (Fig. 3.) In habit and flower most like L. Jiyperborca, but with a nar- rower lip, shorter petals and shorter and thicker spur, which re- sembles those of the two preceding but is comparatively longer. L. brachypctala grows in wet places in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Yukon Territory : Bennett City, 1899, R. S. Williams (type in herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.); above Fort Selkirk, 1899, /.i>. Tarlc- ton, 116. Alaska: Unalaska, 1891, /. M. Macomi, 142. 4. Limnorchis viridiflora (Cham.) Habenaria borealis /9 viridiflora Cham. Linnaea, 3 : 28. 1828 ; Habe?taria hvpcrborea S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:134. 1880 ; in part and subsequent authors ; Limnorchis Jiypcrborca Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Garden, i : 104. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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