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sweet-scented in the evening, not scentless as described by many of the 

 Continental authors. 



The old figures of this genus are all so imperfect that I have thought it 

 better not to notice them. 



In woods and thickets frequent : rarely in pastures. V . May, June. 



16. H. bifolia. 



Calcare ovario dupl6 longiore subclavato, labello lineari integerrimo, petal is 

 superioribus conniventibus obtusis, anthera oblonga truncata: loculis 

 parallelis. 



O. alba bifolia minor calcari oblongo. Rail Syn. ed. 2. 238. 



Orchis bifolia. Linn. Herb. ; Sp. PL 1331. Huds. Fl. Angl. 333. Sw. in Sven. 

 Bot. V. #.314. (good.) 



O. bifolia /3. Sm. Herb. ; Fl. Brit. iii. 918. ; Engl. Fl. iv. 9. 



PI. brachyglossa. Reich. Icon. Cent. ix. t. 852. 



PI. bifolia, var. brachyglossa. Lindl. Syn. {ed 2.) 330.; Orchid. 4. 285. 



Much smaller than the last, and the leaves much more shining ; anther trun- 

 cate, often slightly emarginate, rarely a little rounded at the top, its cells 

 nearly parallel and contiguous throughout their whole extent, their bases 

 much less produced than in H. chlorantha, the central line between the 

 cells a furrow in front a keel behind ; stigma rather broad, truncate, 

 folded so as to leave a channel between its pointed lobes, middle emar- 

 ginate. 

 The only specimen of O. bifolia preserved in the Linnsean herbarium clearly 



belongs to this species. 



Moushold Heath near Norwich. Sir J. E. Smith. Open part of Epping 

 Forest. Mr. E. Forster. Treborth near Bangor, Caernarvonshire. Mr. 

 John Roberts. Abundant in heathy parts of the Sussex forests. 11 . June. 



1/. H.fornicata. 



" Petahs superioribus arrectis acuminatis, calcare ovarium plus duplum 

 longo descendente, anthera oblonga fornicata," labello lineari integer- 

 rimo. 



