100 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sus-Srecres .—Orchis incarnata. “Linn.” Fries. 
Pirate MCCCCLVII. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCXCIV. to CCCC. 
O. latifolia, Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 2308. 
Leaves lanceolate, broadest near the base, acute, slightly hooded at 
the apex, unspotted, blunt. Bracts exceeding the lower flowers, a 
often all the flowers. Sepals pale lilac or pale purplish-rose; labellum 
lilac or pale purplish-rose, paler at the base and spotted and line¢ 
with dark purple; the middle lobe generally a little longer than the 
lateral lobes; spur cylindrical. Seeds with the cells of the test 
hyaline (feich. jil.). 
In wet meadows, in open places in wet woods. Apparently common 
and generally distributed in the south of England. I have gatherec 
it plentifully near Godalming, and have specimens from Dorset, Kent 
and South Wales. Professor Babington gives several stations i 
Cambridgeshire ; and the Rev. W. A. Leighton found it in Shropshi 
but I have at present no records that can be trusted of its occurrenet 
further north, though it is most likely that it is more widel 
_ distributed. 
England, “Ireland” (ab.). Perennial. Summer. 
Rootknobs about the size of an almond out of its shell to that of 
almond shell itself. Stem 9 inches to 3 feet high. Leaves generally 
distributed pretty equally over the whole length of the stem; 
lower ones 3 to 8 inches long; the upper ones much smaller and com 
monly nearly erect. Spike 24 to 9 inches long, tapering slighth 
upwards. Flowers usually very pale purple with darker lines ; the 
upper sepals about 48; inch long; labellum about ~ inch, marked witl 
spots and lines of darker purple. The younger Reichenbach describe 
the testa of the seeds (which I have not seen) as differing from th 
of O. latifolia. 
Sometimes the leaves are very narrow, and the spike few-flowered, 
with shorter bracts, when it is the O. ‘lraunsterneri of Koch, and the 
O. angustifolia of the elder Reichenbach. 
Common Marsh Orchis. 
French, Orchis incarnat. German, Fleischfarbiges Knabenkraut. 
Sus-Srecies I.—Orchis latifolia. “Linn.” Fries. 
Pirate MCCCCLVIILI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCC. Fig. 2 to 4. 
Billot, F). Gall. et Germ. Exsice. No. 657. 
O. maialis, Reich. Pl. Crit. Vol. VI. p. 7. 
Leaves oblong-elliptical, broadest near the middle, subacute ¢ 
