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Kent; but if it ever occurred there, it is now extinct. Bogs at Laken- 
heath and Tuddenham Heath, Suffolk; St. Faith’s bogs, near Norwich, 
and Royden Fen, near Diss, Norfolk: in the latter it was found as 
lately as 1855, by Miss Barnard. In several moors at Cambridge; 
Hinton Moor, about the year 1800; and Teversham Moor, in 1723; 
Burwell Fen, near Reche, in 1836, by Dr. J. A. Power; Bottisham 
Fen, by Professor Henslow; and, I believe, two or three plants were 
found in Wicken Fen as lately as 1863. 
England. Perennial. Summer. 
Rootstock enveloped in soft whitish sheaths, producing an offshoot 
at the side from which the stem of the succeeding year is developed. 
Leaves radical, their stalks enveloped by 2 (rarely 3) subscarious 
sheaths ; lamina 1 to 34 inches long. Stem 3 to 8 inches high. 
Raceme ? to 4 inches long. Bracts of the lower flowers strapshaped, 
longer than the flowers ; - “the upper bract, or sometimes all of them, 
minute and shorter than the ov ary. Pedicels shorter than the ov ary, 
at first ascending, afterwards erect. Sepals about } inch long. Whole 
flower greenish- -yellow; the labellum rather darker, channelled, undu- 
lated, or slightly crenate. Leaves very smooth, bright green. 
There is no ‘sufficient reason for adopting the name Sturmia, on 
account of Liparis having been previously in use in zoology. If this 
rule were carried out, it would change hundreds of the more modern 
names in the vegetable and animal kingdoms. Professor Reichenbach 
himself, in ‘‘ Seeman’s Journal of Botany,” 1865, p. 2, writes, “ I am 
“a decided opponent of the view that the sane generic name could 
“ not be used both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, making ex- 
“ception only that the generally known names of animals cannot be 
* yeceived in botany.” 
Fen Orchis. 
German, Lisel’s Glanzkraut. 
GENUS XVIU.—MALAXIS. Schwartz. 
Perianth subherbaceous, spreading, the sepals much larger than the 
petals; labellum uppermost, shorter and not broader than the sepals, 
concave, entire, not spurred at the base. Column very short, straight. 
Anther terminal, lidlike, persistent, without an apical appendage; 
pollen-masses 4, combined in pairs, obliquely incumbent, all attached 
to a single gland; pollen waxy. 
A small herb growing in sphagnous bogs, with the base of the 
stems swollen and surrounded by sheaths, the new bulb formed above 
the old one. Leaves few, the upper ones larger. Flowers rather 
