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to the south-east of the village I found seven 

 blooms, but although I often visited the spot in 

 after years I never found any more, and it was not 

 until June 6, 1918, that I came across it again in a 

 wood a mile to the north-west of the village, one 

 solitary bloom, however, being all that I could find, 

 and it was over. One of the village school children 

 had previously shown me a bloom on June 1 that 

 he had found in a wood not so very far from 

 Compton, and he said there were a few more. From 

 this it looks as though the species is fairly well dis- 

 tributed, but nowhere very plentiful. 



Habenaria bracteata (Willdenow) Robert Brown. 

 It was only In May of last year (1918) from the 

 20th to the 27th, that I came across this green orchid 

 (of which I do not know the exact vernacular name) 

 in a wood one mile to the north-east of the village, 

 and then only a few blooms were discovered. How- 

 ever, I do not suppose it is particularly rare, but 

 may be somewhat local seeing that I have not noticed 

 it in previous years. Many of the Habenarias, how- 

 ever, are inconspicious and can be easily overlooked. 



Habenaria hvpcrborea (Linnaeus) Robert Brown. 

 This is another Habenaria of which I have no exact 

 vernacular name, but it is a very common and 

 widely distributed one here, as well as being very 

 variable both as regards its height and size of flowers, 

 etc. My dates for fresh blooms range from May 31 

 to July I at all events, if not much later. It seems 

 to favour cold, wet and boggy woods principally. 



Northern white orchis, Habenaria dilatata 

 (Pursh) Gray. There is only one bog about a mile 

 to the north-east of the village where I have found 

 this species, but there it grows in profusion as already 

 stated in the account of C. hirsuium. My dates for 

 fresh blooms range from June 21 to July 17. 



Small northern bog orchis, Habenaria ob- 

 tusata (Pursh) Richards. This little orchid with its 

 cluster of greenish-white flowers is very common and 

 well distributed, at least in the long range of woods 

 lying to the north-west of the village, where in the 

 cool mossy parts one can hardly avoid crushing it 

 under foot. In 1918, the single leaf was just ap- 

 pearing on May 4, the blooms on June 17, and they 

 lasted until July I 1 , or perhaps a little later. 



Small purple fringed orchis, Habenaria 

 psycodes (Linnaeus) Swartz. Probably this is the 

 commonest and most widely distributed of all the 

 orchids to be found here. Damp meadows, swamps 

 and even roadsides are al lequally likely places to 

 find this species from about July 19 to well into 

 August. 



Arethusa, Indian pink, Arethusa bulbosa 

 Linnaeus. This very lovely magenta pink orchid 

 named after Arethusa, one of the nymphs who at- 

 tended the goddess Diana, grows in profusion in the 

 quaking bog about a mile to the north-east of the 



village as already stated, and this is the only locality 

 I know of where it is to be found. I have noted it 

 in bloom from June 21 to July 17, and also that it 

 seems to prefer the little mossy hummocks in the bog, 

 which keep it out of the water, whereas H. dilatata 

 is found in the grass and moss at a lower level and 

 in the very wettest places. 



Wide-leafed ladies' tresses, Spiranthes lucida 

 (H. H. Eaton) Ames. If numbers count for any- 

 thing then this rather insignificant little orchid with 

 its yellowish lip is my rarest find, for I have only 

 located one solitary example so far, on July 20, 

 1918, on a moist bank in the vicinity of the famous 

 bog to the north-east of the village. 



Nodding ladies' tresses, Spiranthes cemua 

 (Linnaeus) Richard. In striking contrast to the 

 above this species can be found almost anywhere not 

 only in very wet situations, but also in compara- 

 tively, if not entirely dry ones. The perfume from 

 a number of spikes is very noticeable and pleasant. 

 My dates for fresh blooms extend from August 

 17 up to as late as October 17. 



Spiranthes Romatizoffiana Chamisso. I have no 

 specific vernacular name for this species of Ladies' 

 Tresses, but its scientific one is high sounding enough 

 for anything. It is well distributed, but not quite 

 so abundant as S. cernua, appearing somewhat 

 earlier however, my earliest date this year (1918) 

 being July 24. 



Lesser rattlesnake plantain, Epipactis 

 repens var. ophioides (Fernald) A. A. Eaton. The 

 rosette of snake-like marked leaves forming the base 

 of this orchid is certainly its most striking feature, 

 and not the somewhat inconspicuous spike of green- 

 ish-white flowers. I have found it in some half a 

 dozen localities in the wods to the north-west and 

 south-west of the village, but never in any of those 

 on the eastern side, with one exception, and that 

 was several miles from Hatley, on the wooded slopes 

 of Barnston Pinnacle. Although I first found it in 

 1915 by means of its leaves, it was not until August 

 1, 1918, that I came across it in bloom. 



Listera convallarioides (Swartz) Torrey. I have 

 no specific veracular name for this Twayblade, 

 which, however, is a common enough species, at least 

 in the woods to the north-west of the village, grow- 

 ing side by side with H. obtusata. I first found it 

 in bloom on June 27 of the present year (1918) and 

 it lasted until about July 1 1 or perhaps a little 

 later. 



Coral root, Corallorrhiza triftda Chatelain. 

 This is one of those inconspicuous little plants which 

 if you are an orchid enthusiast it is advisable not to 

 show to your friends for fear of some very sarcastic 

 remarks. I only found it in one wood to the 

 north-east, and in two others to the north-west of />- 

 the village this year (1918), between May 20 and 



