ORCHIDACE®. 95 
On banks, borders of fields, and the edges of woods, on chalky soil. 
Very local, apparently confined to the counties of Berks, Oxford, and 
Bucks. I have gathered it near Pangbourne in Berks, and in several 
places between Goring and Whitchurch, Oxford. 
England. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootknobs from the size of a black currant to that of a damson plum. 
Leaves 11 to 4 inches long, usually narrower in proportion to their 
length than those of O. fusca. Stem 9 to 18 inches high. Spike 1) 
to 3 inches long. Helmet about } inch long, much more acuminate 
than in O. fusca, and never tinged with dark purple as in that plant; 
labellum with the segments of the terminal lobe much narrower and 
less crenulated than in O. fusca, generally rounded and quite entire at 
the apex. 
Mr. Bentham considers this not distinct from O. purpurea. I can 
only conclude he cannot have seen living specimens of both these 
species. 
The name 0. militaris is now in general use, so it is not expedient 
to adopt that of Gouan (O. Rivini), though the O. militaris of Linnzeus 
included several species, and so has no claim to be retained on the 
ground of priority. 
Military Orchis. 
French, Orchis militaire. German, Rivin’s Knabenkraut. 
SPECIES VI—ORCHIS SIMIA. Lai. 
Prate MCCCCLIII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCLXXIII. 
Billot, F\. Gall. et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1331. 
O. tephrosanthos, Vill. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. [V. p. 16. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 
p. 434. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 260. Parlat. Fl. Ital. Vol. U1. p. 482. 
O. militaris, var. «, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 1873. 
Rootknobs undivided, ovate-ovoid or subglobular. Leaves oblong. 
Flowers in a dense very obtuse spike. Bracts about one-fourth the 
length of the ovary, scarious, 1-nerved. Sepals and lateral petals con- 
nivent into a lanceolate helmet, the sepals acuminate, acute, white, and 
sometimes veined or dotted with pale rose; labellum white, with 
crimson lobes and segments, the lateral lobes linear-strapshaped, entire, 
the middle lobe half as long again as the lateral lobes, divided into 
2 linear-strapshaped segments as long as and of the same breadth as 
the lateral lobes, rounded or truncate, with a conspicuous tooth in the 
sinus between them; spur cylindrical, decurved, blunt, about half as 
long as the ovary. 
In the borders of fields and edges of woods in chalky places. Very 
local. Apparently confined to the county of Oxford, where I have 
