32 Mr. J. E. Brcneno’s Observations 
the present day in the neighbourhood of Streatley and Pangbourn, 
answering exactly to the situation which Brown describes; and 
the latter is said to grow there, and at Caversham in the neigh- 
bourhood, on the authority of the same Mr. Brown, in Ray's 
Catalogus Plantarum. 
Vaillant has given the figure of a flower, t. 31. f. 21. which » 
regards as only a variety of fusca, and says he gathered it on the 
same spot with O. tephrosanthos ; but we are inclined to believe it 
belongs to this species. Ray's Orchis anthropophora altera, Hist. 
Plant. 1218, seems to answer to it. From the reports we have 
received of the Harefield O. militaris, mentioned by Blackstone 
as growing with the fusca, we suspect it to belong to this species 
rather than to the following. Haller’s t. 28. is somewhat doubtful. 
Willdenow's specific character, and consequently that of the 
Hortus Kewensis, does not accord with the English plant; for the 
middle segment cannot be called bilobed, nor are the bracteas, 
upon which the editor of Linnæus places his chief dependence, ob- 
solete. The reference to Vaillant also leads me to suspect it, 
t. xxxi. f. 24., as well as f. 22. and 23., being O. variegata. The 
bracteas, however, vary so much in shape in the dried specimens 
of all the three plants, from the circumstance of the point being 
caducous, that we ought not, perhaps, to rely too much on the 
character drawn from this appendage. Should Willdenow's spe- 
-cies be found to be distinct, it will be necessary to give our plant 
a new trivial name; but we leave this to be ascertained by those 
who have foreign specimens at hand, and who can refer to the 
figures which be has quoted. 
The chief character of our plant is the regular linear incurved 
segments of the lip, which are broader than in tephrosanthos, and not 
notched and ragged as in fusca, but much narrower. The flowers 
grow in a dense spike, which old Gerard describes as ash-coloured. 
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