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them grow stronger than in their natural situations. 

 About the year 1812, we planted many of these 

 bulbs under some trees on a small bank in a garden 

 at Worthing, and in the year 1810 several young 

 plants were found growing on a small turf-plot 

 adjoining, which must evidently have sprung from 

 the seeds of those planted on the bank : they were 

 of the morio, mascula, and ustulata kinds. It 

 would be more desirable to collect the bulbs in 

 the summer, which might be easily done by 

 placing a small stick in the earth on the north side 

 of each plant when in flower, and to take them up 

 in July or October, before the foliage be entirely 

 decayed. 



The Ophrys are far less common than the Orchis, 

 but these are frequently found in chalky soils, that 

 are kept moist by the partial shade of coppice- 

 wood. Martyn says, the Fly Ophrys, O. muscifera, 

 u is found in Bocton church-yard, and about 

 TVrotham and Northfleet in Kent ; Harefield in 

 Middlesex ; Croydon in Surrey ; Hinton, Tever- 

 sham, Fulbourn, Linton, and Chippenham, in 

 Cambridgeshire ; Bath-hills near Bungay, and 

 Earsham-wood in Suffolk ;" Ray observed it " in 

 Essex, as well as the two last counties ; St. VincentV 

 rocks near Bristol ; Plumpton-woods near Ulver- 

 ston ; Rush ton in Northamptonshire ; Asply in Not- 

 tinghamshire ; Barrow- field- wood and Brigstear-moss 



