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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_04E8_01CE808F.92422490 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Nancy & All, July 14, 2013 Your question prompted me to look it up.=20 In Gray's Manual of Botany 7th ed. (Robinson & Fernald 1908). All = Habenaria are called Rein Orchis (sic) and they note that "Name from = habena, a thong or rein, in allusion to the shape of the lip or spur of = some species." They also note that Habenaria is an amphigean genus often = separated into numerous genera. Note: amphigean=3D native of both Old & = New Worlds. In Gray's Manual of Botany 8th ed. 1950, Fernald repeats the above = quote.=20 Habenaria over time has been split and then lumped. In my 1895 = Systematic Botany Warming lists many genera that have pollinia attached = to naked adhesive disks; Habenaria, Platanthera and Coeloglossum among = them. Fernald lumped these three into Habenaria while noting that local = authors often separated Habenaria into numerous genera. Now they are = split again; lumped in my mind because they have similar features. =20 While checking this I noticed that two species of Orchis might be = present in NS. =20 Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: nancy dowd=20 To: naturens=20 Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 7:10 AM Subject: [NatureNS] rein orchid name I will be answering my own question but, according to an Amazon blurb = on an flower guide, Rein Orchids are so called because: "of the resemblance of some of the flowers to the reins used on = horses" How true this is I do not know, never having seen one. Nancy No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3349 / Virus Database: 3204/6486 - Release Date: = 07/12/13 ------=_NextPart_000_04E8_01CE808F.92422490 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.23501"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Hi Nancy & All, = =20 = =20 July 14, 2013</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> Your question prompted me to look = it up.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> In Gray's Manual of Botany 7th = ed.=20 (Robinson & Fernald 1908). All <EM>Habenaria</EM> are called Rein = Orchis=20 (<EM>sic</EM>) and they note that "Name from <EM>habena, </EM>a = thong or=20 rein, in allusion to the shape of the lip or spur of some species." They = also=20 note that <EM>Habenaria</EM> is an amphigean genus often separated = into=20 numerous genera. Note: amphigean=3D native of both Old & New=20 Worlds.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> In Gray's Manual of Botany 8th = ed. 1950,=20 Fernald repeats the above quote. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> <EM>Habenaria</EM> over time has = been split=20 and then lumped. In my 1895 Systematic Botany Warming lists many genera = that=20 have pollinia attached to naked adhesive disks; <EM>Habenaria</EM>,=20 <EM>Platanthera</EM> and <EM>Coeloglossum</EM> among them. Fernald = lumped these=20 three into <EM>Habenaria</EM> while noting that local authors often = separated=20 <EM>Habenaria</EM> into numerous genera. Now they are split again; = lumped in my=20 mind because they have similar features.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> While checking this = I noticed=20 that two species of <EM>Orchis</EM> might be present in = NS.</FONT><FONT=20 size=3D2> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; = PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"=20 dir=3Dltr> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Dnancypdowd@gmail.com = href=3D"mailto:nancypdowd@gmail.com">nancy=20 dowd</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 14, 2013 = 7:10 AM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] rein orchid = name</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV dir=3Dltr> <DIV> <DIV>I will be answering my own question but, according to an Amazon = blurb on=20 an flower guide, Rein Orchids are so called because:<BR><BR>"of the=20 resemblance of some of the flowers to the reins used on=20 horses"<BR><BR></DIV>How true this is I do not know, never having seen = one.<BR><BR></DIV>Nancy<BR></DIV><A></A> <P align=3Dleft color=3D"#000000" avgcert??>No virus found in this=20 message.<BR>Checked by AVG - <A=20 href=3D"http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</A><BR>Version: 2013.0.3349 / = Virus=20 Database: 3204/6486 - Release Date: = 07/12/13</P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_04E8_01CE808F.92422490--
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