HABENARIA 479 



In a tabiilar arrangement of the comital distribution of plants, this would 

 show the same distribution as the Daisy. The individuals of the latter 

 would number millions to one of the former. 



There appears to be some doubt as to Ehrhart's earlier Monorchia being 

 a valid generic name, so I have retained the one in general use. 



HABEKARIA, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 44 (1805). 



H. conopsea, Benth. in Linn. Soc. Journ. xviii. (1881) 354 \ Fragrant 

 Orchis. 



Orchis conopsea, Linn. Sp. PI. 942. Gymnadenia conopsea. R. Br. in Ait. 



Hort. Kew, ed. 2, v. 191. Orchis palmata minor flore rubra, Park. 1358. 

 Top. Bot. 390. Syme, E. B. ix. 102, t. 1460. Nyman, 695. Fl. Oxf. 296. 

 Native. Pascual. Chalk downs, limestone pastures, bogs, and marshes. 



Locally common. P. June- July. 

 First record. Palmata rubella cum longis calcaribus rubeUis, J. B. ii. 1778. 



Wytham, Dillenius, circ. 1730, in Herb. Oxf. Orchis conojjsea. Dr. Noeh- 



den, Mavor's Agr. Berks, 1809. 



1. Isis. In wet meadows about "Wytham, Dillenius. North-west of 



Wytham "Wood, Baxt. in Walk. Fl. Carswell, Miss M. Xiven. 



2. Ock. Between cornfields on banks in Blewbury and Upton 



fields, Heioeti. Childswell Hill, Thurland, 1857. Cothill. Fril- 

 ford. Blewburton Hill. White Horse Hill, 



3. Pang. Ilsley Downs, common, Lousley in Russell's Cat. Unwell 



Wood, Laicson in Herb. Oxf. Streatley, Pamplin. Sulham, Tvfnail. 

 Moulsford Downs. Lowbury. Basildon. 



4. Kennet. West Woodhay, Miss Beales. Chaddleworth, Osmond. 



5. Loddon. Park Place, Stanton. Bisham. 



Mr. Tufnail tells me that at Sulham the bank may be covered one 

 year with a profuse growth, but that in the following season Orchis 

 ijyramidalis may be plentiful, while H. conopsea scarcely produces a 

 bloom. 



H. conopsea, which grows in our wettest bogs and on our driest chalk 

 banks, is recorded for all the bordering counties. 



[H. ALBiDA, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, v. 193. Syme, E. B. ix. 103, t. 1461. 



Error. ' Lid's Bank, Blewbury, and some other places,' Lousley in EiisselVs 

 Cat. 1839. Probably H. viridis was meant. Mr. J. Lousley was a friend of 

 Mr. W. Hewett, author of the Hist, of Compton. From the MS. of Mr. W. 

 Hewett, jun., in the British Museum, w^ith coloured drawings of the Berk- 

 shire orchids, I find that under the name of Satyrium albidum [Habenaria 

 albida] is figured what is probably a specimen of pale-flowered H. conopsea. 

 It is certainly not H. albida. The plant from which it was figured came 

 from the downs south of Hare Common, E. Ilsley. 



H. albida is not recorded for either of the bordering counties. 



1 Not of Eeichb. fil. in Bonplandia, ii. (1854) 10. If the strict law of priority 

 as adopted by British authors be carried out, this will require a fresh 

 name, i. e. H. Gymnadenia. 



