FIRST RECORDS OK BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 17 



O. incarnata L. Fl. Suec. ed. ii. 312 (1755). 1841. Dis- 

 tinguished from next sp. in Leighton's Fl. Shropshire, 429. 



O. latifolia L. Sp. PI. 941 (1753), and O. maculata L. Sp. PI. 

 942 (1753). 1597. " I have found them in many places, especially 

 in . . . Swainescombe wood neere to Gravesend . . . and likewise 

 in Hampsteed wood fower miles from London." — Ger. 170. 



Aceras anthropophora E. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 

 191 (1813). 1666. "Found on several chalkey hills, neere the 

 high way from Wallingford to Bedding on Bark-shire side the river 

 by Mr. Brown." — Merrett, 85. 



Ophrys apifera Huds. i. 340 (17G2), and O. muscifera Huds. 

 /. c. 1597. " Upon barren chalky hils . . . adjoining to a village in 

 Kent named Greenhithe upon Longfield downs by Southfleet, Ac. 

 . . . hkewise in a field . . . half a mile from S. Albons." — Ger. 10(5. 



O. arachnites Reichard, Fl. Moeno-Franc. ii. 89 (1772). 1828. 

 "Chalky downs near Folkstoue. Mr. Gerard E. Smith."— Sm, 

 Engl. Fl. iv. 237. 



0. aranifera Huds. ii. 392 (1778). 1663. "In an old gravel 

 pit near Shelford by the footway from Trumpington to the Church 

 we found hundreds of them." — Ray C. C. App. i. 7. 



Herminium Monorchis R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 

 191 (1813). 1663. "In the chalk pit close at Cherry Hiuton " 

 (Cambs).— Ray C. C. App. i. 7. 



Habenaria conopsea Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 354 

 (1881). 1634. " Orchis palmata minor calcaribus oblongis. . . . 

 In moutosis." — Johns. Merc. Bot. 55. 



H. intacta Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xviii. 354 (1881). 

 1864. Found in May, 1864, by Miss More, at Castle Taylor, Co. 

 Galway.— Journ. Bot. 1864, 228. 



H. albida R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 193 (1813). 1670. 

 "This we found on the back of Snowdon-hill, by the way leading 

 from Llanberis to Carnarvon." — Ray Cat. 227. 



H. viridis R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 192 (1813). 1650. 

 " Orchis Batrachites. By Barkway (Herts). Dr. Johnsons MS." — 

 How, Phyt. 82. 



H. bifolia R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 193 (1813). 1696. 

 " The lesser Butterfly Orchis. In pascuis." — Ray Syn. ii. 238, 14, 

 and see Linn. Trans, xvii. 463. 



H. chloroleuca Ridley in Journ. Bot. 1885, 219. 1597. 

 "Harnpstead Heath."— Ger. 166. 



Cypripedium Calceolus L. Sp. PI. 951 (1753). 1640. "In 

 a wood called the Helkes in Lancashire neere the border of Yorke- 

 shire."— Park. Theatr. 218. 



Iris foetidissima L. Sp. PL 39 (1753). 1562. " I have sene 

 a litle flour delice growyng wylde in Dorset shyre." — Turn. ii. 23. 

 "Xyris .... called in the yle of Purbek Spourgewurt." — Turn, 

 ii. 171. 



1. Pseudacorus L. Sp. PL 38 (1753). 1548. " Acorus groweth 

 not in England wherforc they are farre deceyved that use the yelowe 

 flour de luce, whiche some call gladen for Acorus." — Turn. Names, 

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