FLOWERING PLANTS. 1 
gardens. Mr. Andrews was informed by Miss Le Mesurier, of 
Hauteville, that thirty years ago this plant grew on the cliffs between 
Mont Hérault and Les Thielles, not abundantly, but in fair quantity. 
If this is so, it should still be found there. In 47. Sarn. the Bee 
Orchis is recorded on the authority of H. O. Carré as occurring in 
‘sandy fields eastward of Cobo Bay,’ and there are specimens in 
Gosselin’s old herbarium which were gathered, according to the 
label, ‘in a field called the Parc-a-fouaille,, near the Maison des 
Goubés, at the Grand-Miles, belonging to Michel Le Pettevin.’ This 
field would be somewhere in the Portinfer neighbourhood. Mr. E. 
Dupuy has in his herbarium some very fine specimens gathered by 
him in June, 1864, near Richmond, St. Saviour’s. 
Spiranthes autumnalis, Rich. Autumnal Lady’s Tresses. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rather common, especially towards the coast of the low-lying 
districts, but also frequent on the cliffs. Less common in the 
interior. This is the Ophrys spiralis of Gosselin’s list, and specimens 
still exist in his herbarium. 
Almost all flower names beginning with the word Zady date from 
the early Middle Ages, and are intended to imply some sort of 
association with Notre Dame, the Virgin Mary. 
Spiranthes aestivalis, Rich. Summer Lady's Tresses. 
Native. First record: Marquand, 1891. 
Very rare, and confined to Grande Mare, where it grows in con- 
siderable quantity, but flowers very sparsely in some years. I have 
observed the same thing in the New Forest, where I once saw half 
an acre of bog perfectly white with these flowers, but the following 
year only a few spikes of bloom appeared. 
Listera ovata, R. Br. Tway-blade. 
Native. First record: Babington, 1839. 
Very rare. Like the last species confined to Grande Mare, 
where single plants are scattered all over the marsh, but are more 
numerous on the north side. 
Epipactis palustris, Sw. Marsh Helleborine. 
Native. First found: Gosselin, 1788. 
Rare. Grows sparingly in two or three spots in the marshy 
part of Grande Mare, and rather more plentifully in a wet sandy 
field at Grandes Rocques, where I counted about twenty spikes of 
blossom in 1891. Specimens are still preserved in Gosselin’s 
herbarium, which were gathered both at Grande Mare and ‘in moist 
ground at the bottom of a hillock near and E. of the house of the 
Mare de Carteret.’ This species, like several other orchidaceous 
plants in this island, is very uncertain in flowering. In some years 
