NOTES ON WILD PLANTS. 203 
varied. The green man orchis (aceras anthopophora) 
grows in the Park, but is very rare. I have seen, 
on the whole, perhaps a dozen plants of it in all 
the time that I have known the place. I must 
observe, however, that I have very often been 
absent from Barton in the orchis season. The 
butterfly orchis (habenaria bifolio or chlorantha) 
grows ina beech wood on the Livermere side of the 
parish ; the pyramidal orchis (orchis pyramidalis) 
very sparingly in the park. 
The most remarkable of the wild (or apparently 
wild) plants of Barton are two species of crocus 
which grow abundantly in the park, and have 
grown here for a time beyond the memory of man. 
One of them has deep yellow flowers; of a rather 
deeper shade of colour than the common garden 
crocus; the other flowers are of a delicate pale 
lilac, or sometimes nearly white, always striped 
with deep purple. The yellow kind called by 
botanists crocus aureus, is a native of Greece and 
Asia minor, not known to grow really wild any 
where on our side of the Adriatic sea; it is 
probably what is celebrated by the ancient poet 
Sophocles as the crocus with the lustre of gold. The 
other, which is called by some botanists crocus 
minimus, and by others crocus biflorus, is a common 
plant in Italy and the South of France; and what 
is absurdly called in gardens, the Scotch crocus is 
an enlarged variety of it. Both, I have no doubt, 
were formerly cultivated in a garden at Barton, 
and have held their ground ever since. 
