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fleshy. Leaves 2. one pointed at apex, the other bluut. FlowerS 

 4 or 5 pink-purple with a pure white (rarely purple) lip. (B.) 



2238. 0. kotundifolia, Gray. (Round-leaved Orchis.) 

 Mabenaria rotundifolia, Rich. 



Peat-bogs. Rare. Dow's Swamp. July 2. Root slender, creep- 

 ing. Scape slender, bearing one large, almost round, leaf at the 

 base, aud a few whitish flowers at the summit, lip spotted with 

 reddish purple. 



HABENARIA, Willd. Rein Orchis. 



22.'! < .. H. TRIDENTATA, Hook. 



Peat-bog. Very rare. Two specimens were found at the same time, 

 in a tiny bog at Black Lake, high up on King's Mountain. 

 Chelsea. P.Q. July 2. Not since found although closely looked 

 for in our many peat-bogs. 



2240. H. virescens, Spreng. 



Marsh, in shade. Thurso, Aug. 1 {Wm. Srott*.) 



Leaves large and thin, oblong lanceolate, passing into the conspicuous 



bracts of the elongated raceme. Flowers very small, green. 



Sepals hall' the length of the slender spur. 



2241. H bracteata, R. Br. (Bracteate Green Orchis.) 

 11. viridis, 11. Br. var. bracteata, Reich. 



Woods and meadows. Not uncommon. Twin-bulb.- palmate; 

 flowers green, bracts long and conspicuous. May 3. 



2243. H HYrERHOKEA. R. Br. 



Peat-bogs and swamps. June 1. Flowers green. (B.) 

 2246. II. DiLATATA, Gray. (Wild Hyacinth.) 



Peat-bogs. Not common. June 2. Stem leafy, leaves narrow 

 spike dense, elongated. Flowers white, scented. (P..) 

 2252. H. Hookeri, T and G. 



Damp and rocky woods. Hull. Beechwood. Chelsea. Common. 

 June 2. Leaves orbicular; lying flat on the ground ; flowers 

 green, spur tapering to the tip. 



var. OBLONGIFOLIA, J. A. Paine. 



With the above ami perhaps hardly worthy of a varietal name. 

 Leaves "Mum-. 



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