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sweet-scented in the evening, not scentless as described by many of the 
Continental authors. 
The old figures of this genus are all so imperfect that I have thought it 
better not to notice them. 
In woods and thickets frequent: rarely in pastures. Y. May, June. 
16. H. bifolia. 
Calcare ovario duplo longiore subclavato, labello lineari integerrimo, petalis 
superioribus conniventibus obtusis, antherà oblongá truncatá: loculis 
parallelis. 
O. alba bifolia minor calcari oblongo. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 238. 
Orchis bifolia. Linn. Herb. ; Sp. Pl. 1331. Huds. Fl. Angl. 333. Sw. in Sven. 
Bot. v. t. 314. (good.) 
O. bifolia 8. Sm. Herb.; Fl. Brit. iii. 918.; Engl. FI. iv. 9. 
Pl. brachyglossa. Reich. Icon. Cent. ix. t. 852. 
Pl. bifolia, var. brachyglossa. Lindl. Syn. (ed 2.) 330.; Orchid. 4. 285. 
Much smaller than the last, and the leaves much more shining; anther trun- 
cate, often slightly emarginate, rarely a little rounded at the top, its cells 
nearly parallel and contiguous throughout their whole extent, their bases 
much less produced than in H. chlorantha, the central line between the 
cells a furrow in front a keel behind; stigma rather broad, truncate, 
folded so as to leave a channel between its pointed lobes, middle emar- 
ginate. 
The only specimen of O. bifolia preserved in the Linnzean herbarium clearly 
belongs to this species. 
Moushold Heath near Norwich. Sir J. E. Smith. Open part of Epping 
Forest. Mr. E. Forster. 'Treborth near Bangor, Caernarvonshire. Mr. 
John Roberts. Abundant in heathy parts of the Sussex forests. Y . June. 
17. H. fornicata. 
* Petalis superioribus arrectis acuminatis, calcare ovarium plus duplum 
longo descendente, anthera oblonga fornicata,” labello lineari integer- 
rimo. 
