— eae ee el UUM 
By Thomas Bruges Flower, Esq. 203 
5. North-east District. Roundway Down near Devizes. “ Mar- 
tinsell Hill,” Flor. Marild. Stem 4 to 5 inches high. Lip white, 
with purple spots, while the rest of the flower is a dark, dingy 
purple. Leaves lanceolate, acute. 
4. O. maculata, (Linn.) spotted palmate Orchis. Engl. Bot. t. 632. 
Reich Icones, xiii. 407. 
Locality. Damp woods and pastures. P. Fl. May, June. Area, 
1. 2. 3.4.5. Recorded in all the Districts. A foot high, slender. 
_ Stem usually solid. Leaves white or pale purple, more or less spotted 
or streaked, especially the dip. Spur rather slender. 
5. O. latifolia, (Linn.) broad-leaved or marsh Orchis. Hngl. Bot. 
Suppl. t. 2973. Reich Icones, xii. 402. 
Locality. Marshes and moist meadows. P. Fl. May, June, 
Area, 1. 2. 8. 4. 5. In all the Districts, but locally distributed. 
Stem usually hollow. Flowers varying from pale rose-colour to 
crimson and deep purple, the lip dotted and marked with purple lines. 
This species is known by its slightly lobed dp, with reflexed sides, 
and by the dracteas, which are leafy and longer than the germen. 
O. incarnata (Linn.), Reich Icones, xiii. 897, O. latifolia, Engl. 
Bot. t. 2308, Curt. ii. 184, comes very near to the present species, 
(O. latifolia) from which it differs in the leaves, being usually more 
lanceolate, broadest near the base, acute, slightly hooded at the apex, 
unspotted, blunt. Flowers usually very pale purple with darker 
lines. This form has been observed in the neighbourhood of Marl- 
borough, and will doubtless prove to be not uncommon in other 
parts of the county, when attention has once been directed to it. 
The younger Reichenbach describes the testa of the seeds as differing 
from that of O. latifolia. 
6. O. pyramidalis, (Linn.) pyramidal Orchis. Hng/. Bot. ¢. 110. 
Locality. On downs, banks, and borders of fields, on chalky and 
limestone soils. P. Fl. July. Area, 1. 2.3.4.5. Not unfrequent 
throughout the Districts. Leaves very much aeuminated, rather 
glossy, without spots. Flowers crowded, and forming at first a dense 
pyramidal spike; usually of a bright purplish rose-colour, rarely 
white. This latter variety I have sometimes met with on our 
* Downs.” 
