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Orchigymnadenia St-Quintinii Godfery 



PI. 26 A, figs. I, 2 (p. 141) 



Two specimens found in Teesdale, nearer to G. conopsea than O. macuiata, may be 

 briefly described as combining the narrow erect leaves and long slender many- 

 flowered spike of G. conopsea with diminutive flowers of 0. macuiata. Stem 28 cm. 

 Leaves erect, linear-lanceolate, with small spots near the edges. Flowers scarcely 

 bigger than those of G. conopsea. Lip 3-lobed, lobes sub-equal, lilac with red- violet 

 streaks, and a few spots on the mid-lobe. Spur long (±11 mm.), slender, curved. 

 Three ovaries visibly fertilised. The second specimen had a shorter spike (7J mm.), 

 but was otherwise similar, and had sLx ovaries fertiHsed (PL 26 B). This would have 

 been placed by me under x x Orchigymnadenia Legrandiana G, Camus, but that the 

 viscid glands were enclosed in a pouch, and the spike was long instead of short and 

 few-flowered. 



GYMNADENIA CONOPSEA x ORCHIS MACULATA s.sp. ELODES 



Orchigymnadenia souppensis G. Czmus, Journ. de Bot. vi, 477 (1892) 



PL 30 A (p. 150); PL K, fig. 2 (p. 220) 



Leaves narrow, linear-lanceolate, acute, rather greyish green, with small faint spots. 

 Spike conical, ± 5 cm. long, but not yet fully out. Flowers intermediate in size, 

 nearer 0. macuiata, but with a very slender spur much longer than in elodes, white 

 faintly tinged with violet, with many very small violet spots on lip, sweet-scented. 

 Sepals spreading upwards with rolled-back edges, appearing narrow as in G. conopsea, 

 sometimes faintly spotted; upper sepal nearly erect. Petals ovate obtuse, i -nerved, 

 white, with faint violet tinge, forming a close hood. Lip broader than long, with 

 side-lobes rounded out, and short narrow mid-lobe (recalling that of O. elodes), wliite 

 faintly flushed with violet, with minute spots, and sometimes pale detached lines 

 faintly indicating a vague loop-pattern. Spur long (10 mm. or more), very slender, 

 acute, horizontal or slightly descending. 



Habitat. Mountain pastures. Devil's Bridge, Aberystwyth, N. Wales, growing 

 with both parents, June 30th, 1919. Five specimens seen, in company with Dr T. 

 Stephenson. Teesdale ! 



xGymnadenia souppensis G. Camus, Bull. Soc. 'Bot. Fr. xxxviii, 157 (1891). 

 Orchis Evansii Dr., B.E.C. p. 199 (1906). Orchigymnadenia Evansii 

 Stephenson, /.£. (1922), Icon. f.B. PL 559, fig. 24 (1921), and O.K. p. 131 (1921). 



