326 ORCHIDACEiE. 



684. H. chlorantha, Bab. Greater Butterfly Orchis. 



Native ; in damp busliy, wooded, or waste places. Rather com- 

 mon and widely distributed, though nowhere in gi'eat plenty. 

 June, July. 

 0. I. Hedge-banks between Caracawn Cross and Hessenford ; between 

 twenty and tliirty plants, 1874. Vale between !St. Mellion and 

 Pillaton. \Yooded spot below Viverdon Down. 

 II. Kmgsmill, 1865, 1879. A single plant in a waste piece of ground 

 between the Saltash and Callington Road and Ashland, 1876. 

 D. III. Manadon Wood ; Keys, S. D. Lit. Chron. 351. Near Tamerton 

 Foliot ; perhaps extinct. Between Blaxton and Roborough 

 Down, Field near Roborough village. Woodland Wood, in 

 plenty, 1877. A plant in a field near Tamar House, Beer 

 Ferrers, 1868. 

 IV. Bircham, Egg Buckland. Fancy. Bickleigh. A single plant on 



Roborough Down, but not far from enclosures, 1868. 

 V. Lee I\Iill Bridge, 1878. 

 VI. .» Between Harford and Ivy bridge ; Mr. Gatcombe, Keys, Fh iii. 230. 

 Under Pteris on Dartmoor, a little above Harford Bridge, 1876. 

 Unlike H. bifolia, this is a sylvestral rather than ericetal species. 



OPHRYS, L. 



685. O. apifera, Huds. Bee Orchis. 



Native ; on old rubble-heaps from limestone quarries. Very rare, 

 and extremely local. June, part of July. 

 D. IV. Cattedown Quarry (on a heap of lunestone rubbish) ; Keys, S. D. 

 Lit. Chron. 351. Seen on top of a rubble-heap there, and on 

 the side of another, 1860 ; very sparingly on one, July 1st, 

 1875 ; also noticed in some of the mtervenmg years. 

 The recent formation of a new line of railway, and the consequent 

 removal of some of the limestone rubble mounds, may have rendered this 

 extinct at its only local station. Should any botanist find plants there it 

 is to be hoped he will refrain from gathering them. The number of dried 

 specimens that I have seen in local herbaria show that a heedless and 

 unscientific uprooting of this species was practised some years ago. 

 First record : Keys, 1846. 



SPIRANTHES, Rich. 



686. S. autumnalis, Rich. Autumnal Ladies' Traces. 



Native ; in old pasture land, low or elevated ; and on commons. 

 Rather common. August to October. 

 0. I. Grounds of St. Mellion Rectory House ; Jour. R. Inst. Corn. 

 iii. 51. In a turfy place by the coast on the western side of the 

 Seaton estuary. 



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