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which, after having been lost for more than eighty years, was 
found last summer in a wood near Stroud, by the Rev. Mr. 
Reaver, one of the brothers of the Monastery at Woodchester. 
The discovery was announced to me through a lady residing in 
the neighbourhood, and I had the happiness of seeing the lovely 
plant growing in full beauty, and of sending blooms of it to 
many botanical friends. I refrain from naming the exact 
locality, with the view of protecting it from the ravages of 
greedy exterminators. 
The plant, then called Serapias rubra, was first noticed by 
the Rev. Wm. Luoyp Baxsr, of Stout’s Hill, grandfather to 
our present respected Vice-President, THomas Barwick Luoyp 
Baxer, the first President and founder of the Cotteswold Field 
Club. There is no record of the date, but it was probably near 
the latter end of the last century, and since that time, though 
often sought for, the plant has never been found until last 
summer, when it was re-discovered by the Rev. Mr. Reaper. 
Cephalanthera rubra is not uncommon in many parts of the 
continent of Hurope: I have gathered it in France and Italy, 
but nowhere have I seen it so luxuriant in form and colour as 
in these Cotteswold examples, which would almost seem to 
point to the Cotteswold Hills as its most congenial habitat. 
