206 The Flora of Wiltshire. 
2. South-middle District. ‘ Chalk-pits near the Race-course, 
Salisbury,” Mr. H. Hatcher. Barrows about Stonehenge. Rams 
Hill, near Lavington. Westbury Downs and Scratchbury Camp. 
3. South-west District. Norton Bavant, Clay-hill and Warminster 
Downs. “ Odstock,” Maton’s Nat. Hist. Wilts. 
North Division. 
4. North-west District. Middle Hill, near Box, Rudloe, Corsham. 
“Chippenham,” Dr. R. C. Prior. Below the rocks on Monkton 
Farley Down. Winsley, Bradford. Sandridge, near Melksham, 
5. North-east District. Roundway Hill, near Devizes. Broad 
Hinton. “ Mar!borough,” ev. T. Preston. Tubers roundish. 
Stem 6 to 9 inches high, leafy. Flowers large. Calyx purplish. 
Petals small, oblong, greenish-white. ip convex, velvetty, of a 
deep-brownish purple variegated with yellow, not unaptly resembling 
the body of the Humming Bee. 
2. O. muscifera, (Huds.) fly Ophrys, from museca, a fly, and fero, 
to bear, in allusion to the form of the flower. ngl, Bot. t. 64. 
Reich Icones, xiii. 447, St. 40, 15. 
Locality. In rather moist and shady places, on chalk. P. FU. 
May, June. Area, 1, 2.* 4. 5. 
South Division. 
1, South-east District. ‘ Whiteparish Hill.” Rev. £. Simms. 
2. South-middle District. Chalk-pits near the Race-course, 
Salisbury in company with O. apifera, Mr. H. Hatcher. “ Westbury 
Downs,” Miss Overbury. 
North Division. 
4. North-west District. Woods at Box. Hazelbury. Kingsdown. 
Rudloe, and Weevern Mill. “Chippenham,” Dr. R. C. Prior. 
5. North-east District. Plantations on Roundway Hill. It is 
impossible to confound this with any of the preceding, from which it 
is well distinguished by its very slender, lateral petals, which re- 
semble the antenz of an insect, and by its narrow dip, two-lobed at 
the extremity, and having a broad pale bluish spot in the centre. 
This species has not as yet been observed in District 3. 
[3. O. aranifera, (Huds.) early Spider Orchis. Engl. Bot. ¢, 
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