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appears to need proof. Even Mr. Druce's Oxford station is S. of 

 both Spandau and Brunswick ; and my Surrey locality is nearly on 

 the same parallel with Halle. The argument of " continental 

 climates " seems to me in favour of, and not against its being 

 native in this country ; for our winters are much less severe than 

 those of either Paris or Frankfurt. Therefore, on (/eneral grounds, 

 I respectfully suggest that, apart from its being to some extent a 

 marketable grass, there is no positive presumption whatever 

 against its wildness in Southern England. Mr. Carruthers has, 

 apparently, made no enquiry into the nature of the two localities 

 already on record, wdiich is obviously an essential matter. Of the 

 Oxford station I can say nothing, though the occurrence of Lilium 

 Martacfon raises suspicions. But at Witley, Surrey, where I live 

 and have special facilities for forming an opinion, I can assert that 

 it is certainly not an accidental introduction ; nor can I find any 

 j)roof that it was j^^f-n^osdij sown. The woodland spot where it 

 occurs, though on private ground, has clearly not been disturbed 

 for many years ; and the grass (associated with Foa neuioralis, 

 Festuca uvina, &c.), looks quite native. I also found this species, 

 last spring, under trees near Beutworth House, 4:^ miles from 

 Alton, N. Hants, on rather bare, brambly, neglected ground, and 

 there also thought it wild ; but I was only a chance visitor, and 

 have not yet revisited the place. My strong expectation is that F. 

 Iieteroplujlla will be found in various other southern stations, though 

 probably it may prove a very local grass. Has anyone met with it 

 naturalized in permanent pastures ? It is not so around Witley, as 

 far as I can see. — Edwakd S. Marshall. 



Festuca heterophylla Lam. in N. Hants. — On March 28tli 

 I metywith a grass under trees at Bentworth House, 4| miles from 

 Alton, which had the habit, and triangular, scabrid root-leaves of 

 the above-named species. Two tufts were grown on in my garden, 

 and are now (June) comiug into flower. They are precisely similar 

 to the "Witley ]plant. — Edward S. Marshall. 



A Perthshire Orchid. — I have looked at the remarkable 

 orchid you have sent me, collected by Dr. Buchanan White in 

 Perth. I can hardly pretend to name it, but su^^pose it may be a 

 small form of 0. maculata Linn. I have seen small forms of O. 

 maculata, with small white flowers, growing in very wet marshes. 

 Mr. J. G. Baker, however, said Dr. White's plant appeared to him 

 more probably a depauperated state of 0. latifolia Linn. With 

 regard to 0. incarnata Linn., of which I have given a figure in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. v. xix. t. 31, this figure is exceedingly accurate, 

 except that the colour added to the separate flower "2" is much 

 too high. It is one of the easiest characters for the collector of 

 this species that there is no trace of purple in the flower. As I 

 know the plant at Bransbury, the colour is always a very pale, 

 slightly yellowish, rose, becoming more yellow as the flower fades. 

 The Lancashire examples yon have since shown me were rose-red, 

 more highly coloured than any Bransbury example, not yellow, and 

 not in the least purple. The strong, almost continuous, inter- 



