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finding my plant. But in looking through the Kew Herbarium, 
I saw at a glance that the example of O. incarnata, Linn., in 
Fries's standard distributed herbarium was my plant. This was 
collected by Afzelius at the identical spot where Linneus first 
collected his O. incarnata ; and is marked by Fries “O. incarnata, 
Linn.,certiss.! " I next looked up the herbarium of Linneus ; 
his specimen of O. incarnata is one spike only, but is the same 
thing. 
The original description of Linnaeus of his O. incarnata in the 
* Fl. Svecica,’ ed. 2, p. 312, runs :— 
“n. 802. ORCHIS INCARNATA ; bulbis palmatis, nectarii cornu 
conieo, labio obseure trilobo serrato, petalis dorsalibus reflexis. 
* Orchis palmata lutea, floris labio maculato. Segv. Veron. 3. 
p. 249, t. 8. fig. 5. 
* Precedenti" (i. e. O. latifolie) “simillima; a qua differt: 
foliis pallide viridibus immaculatis ; nec saturate viridibus macu- 
latis. Caule dimidio breviore. Bracteis vix flore aut germine 
longioribus. Corollis pallide incarnatis, nec rubris. Petalis 2 
dorsalibus totaliter reflexis; nec tantum patulis nec maculatis. 
Nectarii labium structura convenit." 
As Linneus says that his Orchis had flowers a pale flesh-colour, 
without any red, and further identifies it (perhaps wrongly) with 
a yellow-flowered Orchis, and finally named it, on account of its 
extraordinary colour, O. incarnata, it is difficult to understand 
how it could have been supposed to be the O. latifolia of Smith 
and Sowerby, essentially a purple-red Orchis. The minor points 
mentioned by Linneus all support the view that Afzelius and 
Fries have got the veritable plant of Linneus. The lip is nar- 
rower than in O. latifolia, and the lateral lobes are in the living 
plant very strongly reflexed ; the central lobe is longer than the 
lateral. 
Whatever view be held concerning the identification of the 
Hampshire Orchis with the true O. incarnata, Linn., I do not 
think, with Syme and Sowerby open before us, it can be main- 
tained that any figure hitherto published represents it. 
[I have found examples of this species in the herbarium of 
Mr. Nicholson from Cornwall. Mr. Newbould tells me that he 
once saw it at Ringwood. Mr. Ridley tells me that it is well 
known to Winchester schoolboys, from whom he has received it, 
collected in the New Forest. At the Meeting of the Linnean 
Society on 17th November, 1881, Mr. Crombie said he formerly 
