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first mention in Leighton's Fl. Shropshire (p. 280) ; Leighton found 

 a single specimen on some waste ground near Shrewsbury in 1835, 

 and forthwith christened it " Kubbish Horehound." Later records 

 are few, at long intervals, of single plants from waste ground and 

 docksides. As regards its status, whether species or variety, the 

 question may well be left to systematists who make a special study of 

 such matters, together with the puzzling fact that whereas by British 

 authors our common Black Horehound is invariably cited as B. niqra L. 

 either as type of an aggregate or as a species distinct from ruderalis 

 and has for synonym S.foetida Lamarck, Continental botanists on 

 the contrary make B. nigra =^ ruderalis and B. alha Jj.=f(jetida. 



Utricularia major Schmid. {itPfflecta Lehm.). New localities 

 for this local rarity found on the peat by ]\Irs. Sandwith and myself 

 in 1912 and 1913 lie a short distance N.W. of Ashcott Station ; and 

 on Tadham Moor not far from the North Drain where the plant was 

 more plentiful. U. vuh/aris was not present at either spot. Further 

 flowerless gatherings of the doubtful Bladder-wort from Clapton 

 Moor in the Walton valley (Fl. Brist. p. 491) have been examined 

 by Mr. B:?nnett and the Be v. E. F. Linton, who agree that it probably 

 belongs to U. major. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES ON THE HABITATS OF OPtCHIDS. 

 Bv Colonel M. J. Godfert, F.L.S. 



It is a curious fact that several essentially marsh orchids are also 

 found growing on dry chalk downs. For instance, on the downs 

 near Winchester, Orchis latij'olia and 0. prcBiermissa occur. These 

 forms are smaller and less robust than the types, and are not so 

 numerous, but they appear to be quite happy in their unusual sur- 

 roundings. Epipactis palustris also grows in dry ground near a 

 chalk pit, not far from Winchester. As far as I know, however, 

 Orchis inca7'nata has not yet been found on chalk downs*. 



On the other hand, GymMideriia canopsea, which is ordinarily a 

 plant of chalk downs and grassy hills, is in some places found grow- 

 ing in mai-shes. The most extraordinarily robust plants of this 

 species which I have ever seen occurred in marshy meadows near 

 Winchester, in company with O. prcetermissa, O. incarnata, and 

 O. lafifolia. They were nearly two feet high, the leaves were as 

 big, broad, and firm as those of prcetermissa, and the flowers were 

 quite double the size of those of the ordinary plant. It did not show 

 any signs of hybridit^^ 



A beautiful form of Gi/mnadenia conopsea, with briglit purjilish 

 pink flowers, grows abundantly in marshy ground in Anglesey, in asso- 

 ciation witli Ki>ipac(is paluslris, and I found some very roluist 



* The Rov. pj. Ellmann informs me that there are several marsh-loving 

 plants belonging- to other orders which are also found on dry limestone, especially 

 chalk, such as Ewpatorlum cannabinum, Cirsium puluHtre, Sagina nodosa, Mala- 

 chinm aqiiaficum. Epilobiitm nncfiistifoliiim, and Plialaris ariindinncea. 



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