ORCHIDACE. 91 
Among bushes and in meadows in chalky soil. Very rare, and nearly 
extinct, though it still occasionally occurs about Darenth Wood near 
Dartford, Kent, where it has been recently found by Mr. Wollaston of 
Eltham; on the Downs, near Canterbury, Mr. George Oxenden saw it 
in 1859, but I believe it has now nearly or entirely disappeared from 
that station. In June 1847, the Rev. E. M. Blomfield found a single 
specimen in the village of Great Glemham, near Saxmundham, Suffolk. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootknobs from the size of a filbert to that of a walnut. Stem 15 
inches to 3 feet high. Radical leaves 3 to 6 inches long, bearing 
considerable resemblance to those of Habenaria chlorantha; upper 
leaves narrower, sheathing the stem. Flowers numerous, in a rather 
lax spike, each flower with a bract at the base longer than the ovary. 
Upper perianth segments about 3; inch long; labellum, measuring to’ 
the end of the middle lobe, 14 inch or more, the lateral lobes not above 
4 inch; spur about } inch long. 
I am indebted to Mr. G. Worthington Smith for a fresh specimen 
of this plant, obtained by Mr. Wollaston in the neighbourhood of 
Dartford. 
Lizard Orchis. 
French, Orchis barbe de boue. German, Bocks Riemenzunge. 
Sus-Genus I].—ANACAMPTIS. 
Labellum with the middle lobe not undulated, erect and not coiled 
in estivation; spur very long. Pollen-masses attached to a common 
gland contained in a pouch. 
SPECIES I—ORCHIS PYRAMIDALIS. Lin. 
Pirate MCCCCXLIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCLXI. 
Billot, Fl. Gall. et Germ. No. 3242. 
Anacamptis pyramidalis, Rich. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. et Helv. ed. ii. p. 793. Fries, 
Summ. Veg. Scand. p.61. Hartm. Skand. Fl. ed. ix. p. 190. Parlat. Fl. Ital. 
Vol. III. p.451. Crep. Man. Fl. Belg. ed. ii. p. 291. Lindl. Syn. Brit. FI. 
p- 261. 
Aceras pyramidalis, Reich. fil. l.c. p.6. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 283. 
Rootknobs undivided, subglobular or ovate-subglobular. Leaves 
oblong-strapshaped, acute. Flowers in a dense spike, at first pyramidal, 
afterwards ovoid. Bracts about as long as the ovary of the expanded 
flowers, scarious, coloured, 1- to 3-ribbed. Lateral sepals spreading, 
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