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late oblongum, apice oblique clavatum, 5-6 mm. longum, intus nudus. 
Columna latissima, 2°5 mm. longa; antherae stipes superne late 
triangulari-dilatatus. 
. Born 
EO. 
Flowered in the collection of the Hon. N. C. Rothschild, Ashton 
Wold, Oundle, in October, 1913. The flowers are yellow, spotted 
with brownish red on the sepals and petals, and striped with 
similar colour on the side lobes of the lip. 
LV.—NEMATODES OR EELWORMS. 
G. MASSEE. 
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scavengers in a small way, causing the disintegration of organic 
matter, and rendering it once more available for plant life. On 
rust of wheat, &c., fungi were not credited with being active agents in 
causing injury to plants; at the present day the pendulum has 
