474 ORCHIDACEAE 



First record. Orchis Oreades trunco pallido, brachiis et cruribus saturate 



ruhesceyitihus . . . found on several Chalkey hills neer the highway 



from Wallingford to Redding on Barkshire side of the river by 



Mr. Brown, Merrett's Pinax, 85, 1666. 



3. Pang. As above, Merreit. Streatley, rare, Pamplin in Lond. Fl. 



Near Pangbourn, among the chalk hills, Boswell. Chalk hills in 



Berks. Hook. Brit. FL ed. 3. 374. Streatley, but I have not seen 



it since 1886. T>v. Boswell Syme in E. B. ix. 96 says, 'After 



searching most carefully for three seasons I have been unable 



to find it on the south side of the Thames, so I fear it has 



become extinct there.' 



In Morison's (Bobart) Herbarium at Oxford, one specimen of this is placed 

 on the same sheet as O. ustulota. In Morison's Hist. Oxen. 493, 2, Bobart 

 gives ' Orcliis anthropophora foliis angustioribus, spica longiore et tenuiore, nobis. 

 Fortasse eadem est quae in montosis cretaceis circa Henley, Eeadingum. 

 aliisqne cousimilibus locis occurrit, et quam J. Baubinns Orcbitem parvis 

 floribus multis pvinctis notatis appellavit, qui (si synonynia spectaverisj duas 

 j)lantas in unam conjungere videtur.' The specimen is O. Simla. 



The ludicrous figures of O. Simia and 0. militaris in Morison., Hist. Oxon. 

 493, I and 2. must be seen to be appreciated. 



W. Browne of Magd. Coll., was apparently the first to find 0. militaris and 

 O. Simia in Britain. He probably also supplied the Caversbam locality (which 

 Eay thought to be in Berkshire) of O. Simia to Eay's Catalogus Plantarum. 



0. Simia is figured in Gerard's Herbal, 156, n. i (1597), and in Johnson's 

 Gerard Emac. 205, n. 2. 



In the Synopsis of the British Flora, ed. 2, 260, Dr. Lindley described 

 our plant under the name of O. viacra, believing that it v/as distinct from 

 either O. militaris or O. tephrosanthos [O. Simia] of continental authors, but 

 botanists do not agree with his determination. 



Oxfordshire is the only county of Britain where 0. Simla is now 

 known to grow. 



O. morio, Linn. Sp. PI. 940 (1753). Green-winged Orchis. 



Oynosorchis Moiio foemlna, Gerard, 158. 



Top. Bot. 387. Syme, E. B. ix. 96, t. 1454. Nyman, 691. Fl. Oxf. 295. 

 Native. Pascual. Meadows, pastures, chalk downs, heaths, and bogs. 



Locally abundant. P. May-June. 

 First record. 0. morio. Dr. Noehden, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. Buscot. Coleshill. Near Faringdon. Longworth. Cumnor. 



Wytham. Idstone. Ashbury. 



2. Ock. Sunningwell, Boswell. Near Bagley Wood, Baxter, 1812. 



Marcham, Walker. Tubney, Lawson in Herb. Oxford. Denchworth, 

 Wait. Coxwell. Wootton. Wittenham. Uffington. Eadley. 

 Kingston Lisle. Steventon. Chilton. Blewbury. 



3. Pang. Cow Down at Ilsley, W. Hewett. A white-flowered form 



on Ilsley Downs, W. Hewett in Brit. Mus. Herb. Moulsford Downs. 

 Compton Downs, Bucklebury. Streatley. Bradfield. Fril- 

 sham. Standford Dingley. 



