140 TYPES OF BRITISH PLANTS 
tall sweet-scented spike of large greenish-white flowers, 
and in the damper ditches comes the Twayblade, with 
small green spike and two egg-shaped opposite leaves on 
the stem. For the Bee and the Fly Orchids we must 
seek the drier pastures, and their names will identify 
them at once. For the Helleborines, with their loose 
spikes of greenish flowers, we must go right into the 
woods, and there too we must search for such rarities as 
the Bird’s-nest Orchid, with no leaves and interlacing 
underground stems, and in the North for the Coral Root 
and the Ladies’ Slipper, the spreading yellow flower and 
swollen lp of which are a great rarity for the plant- 
hunter. 
