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Branclih'tsi straiglit, slender, later stout and rugose, glal^roiis. 

 Leaves usually 4-wliorled, small for the genus, glabrous on both 

 sides, obovate-lanceolate, rounded at apex, not acuniinate, gently- 

 narrowed toward the base, entire, about 20 cm. long, 0-8 oni. broad 

 above the middle, petiole 2 cm. long, primary lateral veins (3-8 pairs. 

 Flowers 10-12 in a terminal sessile umbel. Floral pedicels \h~2 cm. 

 long, nearly 2 nun. thick, very hairy. Calyx cup- shaped, 4 mm. long 

 and 5 mm. in diameter at the mouth, hairy, (lorolla-twha cylindrical, 

 15 mm. long, the cross-section 5 mm. in diameter about middle ; 

 lobes 6 spreading oblong-lanceolate, contorted, about 15 mm. long 

 and 4 mm. broad. ^ti/Ie 1-3 mm. long, hairy at the base, stamens (J, 

 anthers 10 mm. long. 



SHOIIT NOTES. 



Orchis Stmta in Kent. It is interesting to record that the very 

 rare Orchis Slniia has again been found wild in East Kent, a spike 

 having- been received at Kew from Mrs. S. Hall, of Tunbrid^-e Wells. 

 It was found growing in very rough, coarse grass, in a chalky locality 

 near Canterbury, with Orchis Morio and Aceras aufhropopliora^ 

 examples of which were also sent. It was in full bloom on May loth. 

 There are several old county records, among them Dartford, in West 

 Kent, where it was found by William Peete [see Journ. Bot. 19 IG, 

 189] : a specimen collected by him was figured in Enylish Botany, 

 t. 1873, under the erroneous name of O. militaris, and another 

 specimen from the same source is preserved in Mr. Borrer's Her- 

 barium at Kew. Messrs. Hanbury & Marshall, Fl. Kent. p. 331, 

 record the species as " very rare, perhaps extinct " — it is satisfactoiy 

 to be able to remove the latter supposition. A painting of Mrs. Hall's 

 plant has been made, and is at Kew. In order to prevent any mis- 

 understanding as to the identity of the plant it may be added that 

 O. Si/nia is easily distinguished from O. militaris by the narrow, 

 very distinctly curved lobes of the lip, which are of darker purple 

 cohmr. In O. militaris the lip is flatter, and the front pair of lobes 

 distinctly dilated upwards.— K. A. Kolfe. 



Oechis HTiiciNA L. We learn from the Westminster Gazette 

 that "a Central News correspondent reports that a fine specimen of 

 the lizard orchid (Orchis hurcina) {sic) has been found in Ashford 

 (Kent) district. This extremely rare orchid was regarded foi- a long 

 time as extinct in Great Britain, and a great stir was created by the 

 discovery of a si:)ecimen in Kent a few years ago. Since then not 

 more than one specimen has been found in a season, and some years 

 have passed without any being found." 



Intrusion oe the Bee-Orchis. During some three years of 

 the War, my chief lawn was let alone and allowed to run wild. 

 In 1918 and 1919 I noticed the root-leaves appearing of sevei-al 

 plants of some Orchid. Early this year my son. Captain E. C. 

 Linton, K.A.M.C, was home after a period of some years' service in 

 India, and as the job of transplanting was irksome to me, he took the 

 trouble of collecting about thirty of the plants from the one lawn 

 and replanting them in another lawn at one side, where 1 could allow 



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