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well serve as a curious subject of enquiry as to how it 

 came there, and may illustrate how easily a plant 

 may become extinct in any given locality. 



4. Listera ovata, Twayblade. Common in our woods. 



5. nidus-avis, Bird's-nest Orchis. Common under the beeches 



in Oakley and other woods. Having taken up speci- 

 mens of this plant, with their curious bunches of nest- 

 like roots, I cannot at all agree that it is parasitic, as 

 is usually supposed. 



6. Neottia sjriralis, Ladies' Traces. The only locality in which I have 



met with this plant, in Gloucestershire, is in a grass 

 field on the south slope of Marl Hill, near Chelten- 

 ham. This field, from its regular ridges, had evidently 

 once been in tillage, and yet it seems an isolated 

 example of a pasture with us containing this plant, 

 which, at the time of my visit, some 15 years since, 

 was very abundant in this habitat. 



7. Orchis Mono, Green-winged Meadow Orchis. Too common in pas- 



tures, in which its great abundance may betoken 

 poverty of soil, as it is usual in " cold hungry clays." 



8. masculdy Early purple Orchis. Common to rough meadows 



and low thickets. 



9. Orchis ustulata, Dwarf dark-winged O. I have met with occasional 



examples on Sevenhampton Common, near Chelten- 

 ham ; at Eyford, near Stow-on-the-Wold ; and on the 

 slope which descends from Dunsburn into Edgeworth 

 valley. 



10. ,, latifolia, Marsh O. In damp marshy meadows, frequent. 



11. maculata. Spotted O. Common to woods and thickets. 



12. pyramidalis, Pyramidal O. In Oakley and other Cotteswold 



woods and thickets. 



13. Gymnadenia conopsea. Fragrant Gymnadenia. Occasionally met with 



in Oakley, Uley, and other woods and thickets of the 

 county, well distinguished by its lilac coloured flowers 

 and fragrant scent. 



14. Habenaria bifolia, Butterfly Orchis. Common in the Cotteswold 



woods. This is also a highly fragrant species. 



15. viridis. Green H. At Charlton, near Cheltenham, and 



Furzen Leaze, near Cirencester. 



16. Herminium Monorchis, Green Musk Orchis. This I have"only met 



with in one locality, namely, on the slope of Ravens- 

 gate Hill, below Linover wood, where it forms a rounded 

 bay, looking down upon the village of Charlton. 



17. Ophrys apifera, Bee Orchis. This beautiful specimen has been met 



with, more or less sparingly, in several habitats. I 

 have gathered it on.Painswick Hill, on Leckhampton 

 Hill, and very fine examples in Oakley Park. The 

 most curious locality in which I have met with it is 

 on a spoil heap thrown out in making the Thames 

 and Severn Canal, by the Engine-house near Tetbury 

 road Station. 



18. Ophrys muscifera, Fly O. In Lineover Wood, Charlton Kings, and 



in the woods bounding the north side of Sapperton 

 Valley, but only sparingly. 

 Cirencester, 1855. 



