EPIPACTIS 471 



I have doubts whether this is more than a form of E. latifolia growing 

 in a drier or more exposed situation. Our phmt is not E. ovalis, Bab. 

 in E. B. Suppl. t. 2884, with which it is made synonymous in Index 

 Kewensis, but is the E. media of Syme, E. B. 



E. violacea, Bor. Fl. du Centre Fr. ed. 3, ii. 651. Nym. 688. Top. Bot. 



384. 

 E. purpiirata, Sm. Engl. Fl. iv. 41. ? E. Hellehorine, var. variajis, Crantz, 

 Stirp. Austr. vi. 467 (1769). 



Native. Sylvestral. Open woods. Eare. P. September. 

 First record. E. purjjurata, Mr. G. G. Mill in PJujt. i. 993, 1843. 



4. Kennet. Wickham, Mrs. Batson. West Woodhay, Miss Beale. 



Woods near Aldermaston, Padworth, and Brimpton. 



5. Loddon. 'There is an Epipactis growing in the Stokenchurck 



woods, which is, in its young state, quite purple in both leaves 

 and stem ; it must, I suppose, be E. piirpurata. I have seen it 

 also in Bisham Wood,' Mill, I. c. Quarry Wood. 

 I have seen E. violacea in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, 

 and it may occur in the other bordering counties. 



E. palustris, Crantz, Stirp. Austr. vi. 462 (1769). Marsh Hellehorine. 



Serapias Hellehorine, var. palustris, Linn. Sp. PI. 950. 

 Top. Bot. 385. Syme, E. B. ix. 126, t. 1482. Nyman, 687. FL Oxf. 288. 

 Native. Uliginal. Marshes and bogs. Local. P. July-August. 

 First recorded by Mr. Baxter in Walk. Fl. 259, 1833, and Phaen. Bot. 

 3x7, 1839. 



1. Isis. Eight-hand side of the road near the fourth milestone 



going to Ensham, Baxter, I. c. Pusey, Miss M. Xiven. 



2. Ock. Frilford Heath. Cothill Bog. Bog on Foxcombe Hill. 



Bog near Marcham. Bog near Shippon. 

 5. Loddon. Grounds at Wargrave Hill, Miss Jekyl in Briit. Contr. 

 Woods between Maidenhead Thicket and Great Marlow, J. Woods' 

 MS. (I suspect both these records are errors and belong to 

 aggregate E. latifolia.) Peaty margins of the larger lake at 

 Bulmarsh, Tvfnail. 

 It is somewhat curious that none of the peaty bogs in the south of 

 the county should yield this plant, which is almost confined to the 

 bogs on the Oolite formation in the north of the county. The record 

 in Merrett's Pinax, quoted under E. latifolia, may possibly refer to this 

 species, as it has a creeping root. 



E. palustris is recorded for all the bordering counties except E. 

 Gloucestershire. 



ORCHIS, Linn. Gen. n. 900 (Tournefort, Inst. t. 247). 



[O. HiRCiNA, Crantz, Stirp. Austr. vi. 484 (1769). Lizard Orchis. 



Is recorded for Surrey and Hants, but is extinct in both, counties.] 



