Mr. Babington on the Neottia gemmipara of Smith. 263 



ing extract from Mr. J. Drummond's original journal, where it appears under 

 the date of August the 3rd; no year is stated, but it must have been, in 

 Mr. Hincks's opinion, 1809 or 1810:— « The following- day I spent on Bear 

 Island. I found nothing new upon it, but I found a very curious species of 

 Ophrys, which I believe to be new, upon the main land opposite the western 

 redoubt, growing in a salt marsh near the shore; it was in very small quan- 

 tity. I only found two specimens." One of these two is probably the specimen 

 now preserved in Sir J. E. Smith's Herbarium. From that time until recently 

 the plant was not noticed by any botanist ; but within the last few years it has 

 been again discovered near to, but probably not in exactly, the original spot 

 by Dr. P. A. Armstrong, a physician resident at Castleton Bearhaven, in the 

 county of Cork, growing in small quantity within less than a mile of that 

 town. He kindly conducted Mr. E. Winterbottom and myself to its station 

 on the 30th of September 1843. We there saw about twelve specimens, 

 several of which had been destroyed by cattle, and all the remainder were in 

 rather an advanced state of flowering. This plant seems to be confined to a 

 very few spots near to the sea-shore of that district, occupying the drier parts 

 of rather boggy fields. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 

 Tab. XXXII. 



Fig. 1. Spiranthes cernua, natural size. 



Fig. 2. A flower and bract, magnified. 



Fig. 3. A flower with the sepals and petals removed, to show the column. 



Fig. 4. The column of Spiranthes autumnalis, to show the difference. 



