ORCHIDACE 2. 103 
pile purple; spur very slender, slightly decurved, filiform-subulate, 
acute, very long, usually about twice as long as the ovary. Rostellate 
process elongate. 
In bogs and on heaths and chalky banks and borders of fields. 
Rather common and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer. 
Rootknobs 2, very similar to those of Orchis maculata. Stem 6 inches 
to 2 feet high. Leaves 2 to 6 inches long or more, folded down the middle 
and keeled on the back, more or less recurved, the lower ones much 
larger than those on the upper part of the stem. Spike 1 to 4 inches 
long. Bracts herbaceous, about as long as the flowers or more rarely 
exceeding them, 3-nerved. Flowers similar in size and shape to those 
of Orchis pyramidalis, but paler and much more purple in their hue; 
spur considerably longer than in that plant, from which G. conopsea 
(which probably ought to be referred to the genus Orchis) may also 
be known by its palmated root-tubers, laxer and less conical spike, 
and very fragrant flowers. 
The Rey. W. W. Newbould informs me that he has gathered, on 
Barkway Moor, Herts, the large short-spurred form called Orchis 
densiflora by Wahlenberg. 
Fragrant Orchis. 
French, Orchis suave. German, Fliegenartige Héswurz. 
This is one of the most fragrant and delicious of our native Orchids, the odour 
resembling that of the carnation. 
SPECIES I-—GYMNADENIA ALBIDA. Rich. 
Prate MCCCCLXI. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Hely. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCXLX. 
Reich. fil. 1.c. 110. 
Habenaria albida, R. Br. Benth. Handbk. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 460. Hook. & Arn. 
Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 436. 
Orchis albida, Scop. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 18. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. TIT. 
ep 209: 
Becchia albida, Parl. Fl. Ital. Vol. II. p. 397. 
Platanthera albida, Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. p. 261. 
Peristylus albidus, Lindl. Orchid. p. 299. 
Satyrium albidum, Linn. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. 1. p. 505. 
Rootknobs several, narrowly conico-cylindrical. Lower leaves 
oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse; upper leaves lanceolate, acute. 
Flowers in a very dense subunilateral spike. Sepals and lateral petals 
conniyent; labellum about as broad as long, 3-lobed; the lobes all oblong- 
triangular; the middle lobe as broad as and a little longer than the 
