464 Mr. BaniNGTON on several British and European Plants. 
Pl. bifolia. Reich. Icon. Cent. ix. p. 19. t. 851. Lindl. Syn. ed. 2. 261.? ; 
Orchid. 4. 285. (excl. syn. Linn.) 
1 am only acquainted with this plant from the figure and description quoted 
above. It appears to be a truly distinct species, having its anther rounded at 
the top and hooded, the cells parallel; stigma apparently narrower than in 
H. bifolia; the upper lateral petals acute, not converging over the anther ; 
the lip narrowing slightly from its base, and rather more acute than in either 
of the preceding species; spur very long, subulate. The whole plant is pro- 
bably smaller than H. bifolia. 
The Linnæan herbarium having proved that the Pl. brachyglossa of Reichen- 
bach is the true O. bifolia of the Sp. Pl., I have been obliged to give a new 
name to this species, and have chosen one derived from the structure of its 
anther. Reichenbach’s description and figure are derived “ad vivam e Flora 
Dresdensi.” 
The quotation of Lindley’s Syn. is probably correct, as he has altered his 
authority in the 2nd edition of that work, and now quotes Reich., not Linn. 
as he did in the first. I cannot, however, be certain, since he says, “ anther 
with converging cells"; now they appear to me to be parallel. He also says, 
“in groves and thickets in England”; he would therefore appear to consider 
it common: but I have not, after the examination of numerous specimens of 
the so-called H. bifolia from various and distant parts of the country, been 
able to detect a single individual of this species. He also continues to quote 
Engl. Bot. i. 22. for this species as well as for H. chlorantha. He is, I believe, 
the first botanist who published the fact that two plants, distinguished on the 
Continent, but confounded by English authors, exist in this country. 
