grows near Gijon in the Asturias (Durieu), in Portugal (Welwitsch and 
others), Algiers, Tuscany, Sicily, Capri, Malta, near Athens, and on 
Mount Pentelicus, at Smyrna, and in the island of Cyprus (Parlatore, |. c.). 
M. Barla, in his lately published ‘ Iconographie des Orchidées des Alpes 
Maritimes,’ gives a figure of a plant which he names S. occultata, Gay, 
and which has been found in very small quantity between Ventimiglia 
and Bordighelera, and onsthe Croisette, near Cannes, but these drawings 
appear to me to represent small-flowered forms of S. lingua and not 
S. occultata, Gay. I do not know of any station for S. occultata, Gay, in 
the region between Marseilles and Genoa other than those in the neigh- 
bourhood of Toulon and Hyeres. 
Serapias lingua, L., has the same east and west extension as S. occul- 
tata, Gay, but is far more abundant, and is the species most frequently 
met with along the whole Mediterranean region; it has also a greater 
range on the north-west, finding, with S. cordigera, L., its northern 
limit in the neighbourhood of Nantes, in lat. 47°. I have caught the same 
insect (Ceratina albilabris), mentioned above (see Plate XVI. Part I.), 
as fertilizing Serapias cordigera, within the hood of S. lingua, and also in 
the flowers of Aceras anthropophora, R. Br., and bearing their respective 
pollinia. A very singular abnormal development may not unfrequently be 
observed at Mentone in Serapias lingua, and S. cordigera, in which the an- 
terior half of the lateral sepals has taken on the structure of the labellum.* 
EXpLaNaTion or Pirate XCV.—Fig. A 1, column and part of the 
labellum, showing the united guiding-plates, magnified. B, a flower of 
S. lingua, L., from another plant, of the natural size. C 1, column and 
part of the labellum, magnified. C 2, labellum, magnified. C 3, column 
viewed from in front, showing the grains of pollen falling from the 
anther-cells. 
* See Journal of Linnean Soc., London (Botany), vol. xi. p. 490, 
