272 ORCHIDACE^. 



Dry fields and banks ; rather rare. P. September. 

 I. Neighbourhood of Uxbridge ; Lightf. M8S. Pinner Hill, Mrs. Tooke ; 

 Melv. 76. 



III. In the field next Thistleworth as you go from Branford (= Brentford) 



to her Majesties house at Eichmond ; Ger. 168. 



IV. Plentifully in a field adjoining to our garden at Mill Hill ; in another 



field at Highwood Hill, abundantly ; Michael Collinson MSS. 



V. Beside Syon ; Titrn. Names. Hanwell Heath near Ealing, Dr. Good- 



enough ; Curt. F. L. 

 VI. At Enfield, on the Chase, in a dry ditch ; Boody MSS. On Enfield 

 Chase, near the town ; MS. note {Alchorne's) quoted in Phyt. iii. 169 

 and Mart. App. P. C. 65. 

 VII. [In the field by Islington where there is a bouling place under a few 

 old shrubby okes ; upon a common heath by a village called Stepney, 

 Master John Coles ; Ger. 168.] 

 First record : Turner, 1548 ; also first as a British plant. 



LISTERA, B. Br. 



657. Im, ovata, B. Br. Tway-hlade. 



Ophris hifolia (G-er.). Bifolium, Lob. (Johns.). Bifolium sylvestre vulgare, 



Park., (Blackst.). Ophrys ovata (Curt.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 416 ; iii. 510. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 

 Moist woods and copses ; rather rare. P. May, June. 

 I. In Whiteheath Wood and Scarlet Spring, and in meadows near the 

 river, Harefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 10. Copse near Harefield towards 

 Uxbridge ; Cole. Copse near Pinner Wood. Euislip. 

 III. South End of Harrow Grove ; Melv. 75. 



IV. Hampsteede Wood ; Ger. 326. Hampstead Heath ; Johns. Enum. 

 Meadows opp. Swan Inn, near Hendon ; Coop. Supp. 11. Beutley 

 Priory Woods ; Melv. 75. Bishop's Wood. Scratch Wood. 



VI. In the fields by Highgate ; Ger. 326. The Alders Wood, Whetstone. 

 First record : Gerarde, 1597 ; also first as a British plant. 



NEOTTIA, Linn. 



658. W. Nidus-avis, Bich. Bird's-nest. 



Orchis abortiva fusca, C. B. P. (Blackst,). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 414; iii. 510. Syme E. B. ix. f. 1478. 

 Parasitical on beech and other trees ; very rare. P.? May. 

 I. In Whiteheath Wood on Harefield Common, but very rarely, 1735 ; 

 Blackst. Fasc. 67. 

 III. Harrow Grove, 1868 ; Farrar. 

 IV. On a common laurel in the grounds of Stanmore Cottage, about 1830; 



Varenne. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. Occurs in Oxhey Wood, Herts; Farrar. 

 Just beyond our bounds. 



