NEOTTIE^—GOODYERA 85 



bract-like, tapering, ratlier acute, 3 -nerved, adpressed to stem. Raceme spike-like, 

 one-sided, narrow, rather dense, straight or slightly twisted, up to 10 cm. long. 

 Flowers small, white, sweet-scented, with numerous gland-tipped hairs, rather 

 tubular, nearly at right angles with the ovary. Bracts linear-lanceolate, tapering, 

 acute, 10-15 "^rn- ^oi^g' i-nerved, ciliate, sometimes glandular-hairy, pale green, 

 whitish and glossy within, embracing and slightly exceeding the ovary. Ovary 

 shortly stalked or sessile, short (i 9 mm.), top-shaped, sHghtly bent forward at the 

 apex, compressed laterally, later somewhat triangular, pale green, glandular-hairy, 

 with three cord-like ridges, slightly twisted if sessile, if not the stalk is twisted; 

 capsule distinctly stalked, pear-shaped. Sepals ovate, obtuse, concave, short, white 

 or tinged green, glandular-hairy outside, the lateral slightly spreading, the upper rather 

 longer, horizontal, 1-2-nerved. Petals lanceolate, obtuse, very narrow, i-nerved, 

 glabrous, lying close to the upper sepal and about the same length. Lip shorter than 

 sepals, undivided, the basal half (hypochile) forming a deep rounded bag-shaped 

 pouch, the forward half (epichile) narrow, tongue-shaped, obtuse, slightly, some- 

 times considerably shorter than the basal pouch, furrowed and curved sharply down 

 in front, almost parallel with the hypochile. Column short, broad, projecting for- 

 wards with a triangular nib-shaped filament at the back, to the summit of which 

 the anther is fixed by its back. Stigma nearly circular, not fringed with hairs at the 

 base, prolonged at the apex into a rostellum, consisting of two short acute curved 

 horns enclosing and supporting the viscid gland, which is nearly circular but truncate 

 at the apex. Anther stalked, brownish, hood-shaped, 3 -toothed in front, resting on 

 the upper surface of the rostellum. PoUinia two, short, yellow, ovoid, without 

 caudicles, attached to the viscid gland. 



Habitat. Mossy pine-woods, generally inmountainregions. Flowers July to August. 



Distribution. Scotland from Berwick to Ayr, Ross,' and Moray Firth, Culbin 

 Sands (abundant), Cumberland. It has been found in Norfolk, perhaps introduced 

 when pine plantations were formed, as was the case in Germany, Denmark, Holland 

 and Belgium.^ Scandinavia to the Pyrenees and Balkans, Russia, Asia Minor, Afghani- 

 stan, Siberia, Japan, N. America. G. repens is the only European species. 



G. repens is easily distinguished from Spiranthes autumnalis, the only British orchid 

 for which it could possibly be mistaken, by its creeping rhizome and stolons, net- 

 veined leaves, deep sack-shaped base of the lip, and its spout-like undivided apex. 

 The specimen figured, found by us near Bex, Switzerland, had a small top-shaped 

 bvdb, from the top of which a new shoot was growing. I have never seen or heard 

 of a similar occurrence in the Neottieas. It appears to be quite free from variation, 

 and to be a pure-blooded stable species, perhaps because, owing to its habitat in 

 mossy mountain woods, there are no other orchids with which it can hybridise. No 

 ' PI. H 2 shows specimens from Ross. ^ A. and G. Syn. in, 896. 



