VOL. XVIII. (2) GLOUCESTERSHIRE ORCHID 159 



ANOTHER GLOUCESTERSHIRE ORCHlD : 

 Epipactis Afroviridis W. R. Linton. 



BY 



The Rev. H. J. RIDDELSDELL, M.A. 



{Read nth November, 1913.) 



In 1912 the President of the Club, the Rev. Walter Butt, 

 and myself spent some weeks botanising at Cranham, a village 

 on the Cottes wolds about three miles from Pains wick. When 

 there, we were interested in the various EpipacHs-iorms 

 which occur frequently in the woods, but both of us had to 

 leave before they came into flower, and so could do nothing 

 with them. Clearly there were at least two forms, one of 

 which, roughly speaking, would go under E. latifolia, and the 

 other under the closely allied E. media. 



' After returning to Llandaff about the middle of July, 

 when my summer holidays always end, I wrote to Mr Day, 

 of Minchinhampton, who has done much work of excellent 

 quahty for the County Flora, to ask him to send me a gathering 

 of Epipactis from the woods near him. He kindly forwarded 

 a good parcel of specimens gathered in Gatcombe Wood. 

 These, on a first examination, proved to include two specimens, 

 and no more, of E. media. The rest were all of one type, 

 showing considerable variation in slight matters, but clearly 

 all of one group. 



A subsequent and very careful and detailed examina- 

 tion of each specimen enabled me to make notes on flower 

 colour, length of bract, state of label surface (it is necessary 

 to see whether it is smooth, or furrowed and folded), shape 



