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appearing with the flowering stem, and sheathing its base, 2 to 6 
inches long, gradually attenuated into an indistinct petiole ; ; the 
tuft of leaves from which the flowering stem of the next season is to 
be produced may be found in a young state in the axil of the lowest 
leaf, but it is not developed till after the flowers have faded. Flowering 
stem 6 to 18 inches high. Spike 2 to 6 inches long. Flowers similar 
to those of 8. autumnalis, but a little larger, with narrower sepals, and 
the labellum rather longer in proportion and more puberulent on the 
upper side at the apex. Rachis, bracts, ovary, and exterior of the 
sepals glandular-puberulent, the hairs being considerably shorter than 
in S. autumnalis. 
Summer Ladies’ Tresses. 
French, Spiranthe d’été. German, Sommer Wendelorche. 
SPECIES TIL—S PIRANTHES GEMMIPARA. Linl. 
Pirate MCCCCLXXIV. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. XIII. Tab. CCCCLXXVII. Figs. 23, 24. 
S. cernua, Bab. olim Bot. Mag. No. 5277. Benth. Handbk. Brit. Bot. ed. ii. p. 455 
(non Rich). 
“S$. Romanzoffiana, Cham.” Reich. fil. l.c. p. 153. Asa Gray, Man. Bot. of N. U.S. 
ed. vy. p. 504. 
Root with several cylindrical or terete thickened fibres. Radical 
leaves surrounding the base of the flowering stem, strapshaped- 
‘elliptical; lowest leaves on the flowering stem resembling the radical 
leaves, and scarcely smaller; uppermost leaves smaller, resembling 
the bracts. Flowers in 3 twisted rows in a rather thick dense spike. 
Bracts slightly concave, enclosing the ovary only at the base, acumi- 
nate. Sepals and lateral petals connivent; labellum ovate-oblong, 
contracted below the apex, with 2 smooth globular callosities at the 
base. Beak of the stigma short. 
In pastures. Very rare, and found only in the county of Cork. 
The following account of its stations is given in the “Cybele 
Hibernica,” p. 286:—‘* At Dunboy, on the strand of the mainland, 
opposite the Western Redoubt on Bear Island, Bantry Bay (Mr. J 
Drummond, 1810), ‘Flor. Cork.’ On a meadow sloping towards 
Bearhaven (Mr. J. Woods, 1855). In a rushy meadow sloping to the 
sea, west of Castletown, on rather dry ground (Dr. E. Percival 
Wright).” 
Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 
“Stem 5 to 15 inches high” (A. Gray). Leaves 3 to 4 inches long. 
“Spike 1 to 4 inches long” @ 1. Gray). Perianth segments nearly 3 inch 
long, turned upwards at the apex; labellum about the same length, 
