ORCHIS 473 



0. ustulata is recorded for all the bordering counties, but it is ex- 

 tremely rare in Oxfordshire. 



[O. PURPUREA, Huds. Fl. Angl. 334 (1762). O. militaris, var. b, Linn. Sp. PL 941. 

 Synae, E. B. ix. 93, t. 1451. Is reported for Surrey.] 



O. militaris, Linn. Sp. PI. 941 (1753). Soldier Orchis. 



0. Rivini, Gouan, 111. 74 (1775). 0. galeata, Poir. in Lam. Enc. Meth. 



iv. 593 (1789). 

 Top. Bot. 388. Syme, E. B. ix. 94, t. 1452. Nyman, 698. Fl. Oxf. 291. 

 Native. Sylvestral. Woods and borders of woods on the Chalk. 



Very rare. Almost if not quite extinct. P. May-June. 

 First record. Orchis AntlJi'ropophora autumnalis, Oreades altera, Col. 318. 



The Man Orchis, found on Chalkey hills neer the highway from 



Wallingford to Bedding on Barkshire side of the river by Mr. 



Brown, MS. note in [Holes'] Phijt. Brit, in Mag. Coll. Lib. before 1659 : 



printed in Merretfs Pinax, 1666, 85. 



2. Ock. Orchis galea et alis fere cinereis, J. B. In latomia vetusta 



ultra Hinksey haud longe ab Oxonio etiam reperitur, {Bobart) 

 Morison, Hist. Oxon. iii. 494 (1699). It is somewhat difficult to 

 believe that the true 0. militaris ever occurred here, but Bobart 

 ought to have known the plant, and his specimens in the 

 Herbarium at Oxford are correctly named. 



3. Pang. Between Wallingford and Beading, on the chalky hill, 



Brown in Merrett. Streatley, Lightfoot. Hills above Streatley, to- 

 wards Aldworth, Bev. Mr. Scholfitld in Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 

 Both Dr. Noehden and Mr. Bicheno are given as including it in 

 their lists of Berkshire plants in that work. More recently 

 Mr. J. T. Syme [Boswell Syme] in the Phijtologist 1 1853) 861, says 

 that this fine species still grows, but very sparingly, between 

 Pangbourn and Streatley, Berks. Near Reading, Heicett, 1844. 

 Near Streatley, Rev. Mr. Mehill, 1886. Near Basildon. The 

 reckless manner in which Dr. Boswell Syme collected the rare 

 Thames Orchids was exceedingly reprehensible. 

 5. Loddon. About Henley, Bobart, I. c. On the precipitous bank of 

 Bisham Wood, near the Quarry, both below and above the path, 

 but sparingly. Mill in Phyt. i. (1843) 993. 

 References to the occurrence of 0. militaris in Berkshire will be found 



in many botanical works which it will be unnecessary to quote, as they 



give no additional information. 



0. militaris is recorded for Oxfordshire, Bucks, and Surrey. 



O. Siiuia, Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. 507 (1778). Monkey Orchis. 



0. tephrosanthos, Vill. Prosp. ii. 16, et Hist. PI. Dauph. ii. 32 ^1787). 

 Top. Bot. 388. Syme, E. B. ix. 95, t. 1453. Nyman, 690. Fl. Oxf. 292-3. 

 Native. Sylvestral, Borders of woods on the Chalk. Very rare. P. May. 



