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as far as the junction of the side-lobes, the rest of the hp pale green, glabrous to its 

 bifid, notched or 2-4-toothed apex. Spur short (± 4 mm.), conical, sack-like, rounded 

 at apex, directed downwards, with thick green walls, its interior surface covered 

 with extremely minute short papillte. Column short. Anther pear-shaped, greenish 

 white, cells somewhat distant, staminodes small, rounded, fold between anther-cells 

 bright green, short or rather long. Pollinia short, pear-shaped, pale olive-green, 

 caudicles thick, yellow, longer than pollinia, bent at apex, fixed to the centre of the 

 elliptical or somewhat quadrangular viscid gland. Stigma obtusely four-cornered or 

 heart-shaped, bordered by a dark line. 



PI. C, fig. 4 (p. 50), shows a spike from the Sussex downs. 



Camus states that before the flower opens, nectar is secreted in the spur, but that 

 it has almost entirely disappeared when the lip uncoils.' Is this always the case? 

 The visits of hive-bees suggest the presence of honey. Plants were pushing up in a 

 garden in Yorkshire on November 2nd, 195 1. 



Habitat. Edges of woods, near paths in woods, amongst bushes, in fields, etc., 

 mostly on calcareous soils. Flowers May to July. 



Distribution. Least rare in Kent, where about 20 stations are known; Surrey 

 (B.E.C. 1921 and 1924); Sussex, Cuckmere district (J.B. 1911 and B.E.C. 1921); 

 Hants. (B.E.C. 1925); Sussex (B.E.C. p. 399 (1921)); Dorset (?) (B.E.C. 1925); 

 N. Somerset (B.E.C. 1923); W. Gloucester (B.E.C. p. 129 (1917)); N. and S. Wilts. 

 (J.B. 1908); Oxon. I plant (B.E.C. 1921); Berkshire (B.E.C. 1921); Cambridge 

 (B.E.C. 1921 and 1924); E. Norfolk (B.E.C. 1923); Jersey (B.E.C. 1919, 1920 and 

 1921). Mostly sporadic. The first record for Britain appears to be "nigh the highway 

 between Crayford and Dartford", Johns, Men. Bot. pars alt. p. 27 (1641). It was 

 collected at Dartford by Banks, and the figures in English Botanj and in Flora 

 Eondonensis are from Dartford specimens. Prof. F. Darwin told Webster that a 

 flowering specimen suddenly appeared in the Cambridge Botanical Garden, where, 

 so far as was known, it had never been noticed before. It is said to be difficult to 

 cultivate, usually dying after flowering. It seems to be spreading. Its northern 

 limit appears to be Holland. It extends to Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy, 

 the Balkans, Asia Minor, and N. Africa. 



HiMANTOGLOSSUM HIRCINUM Sprcngcl, SjSt. Ill, 694 (1826). SaTYRIUM 



HiRCiNUM L., J)>. /)/. ed. I, p. 944 (1753). Orchis HiRCiNA Crantz. Loro- 

 GLOSSUM HIRCINUM Rlch. (1818). AcERAS HIRCINA Lindl. ; Rchb. f. 



Fertilisation. The floral mechanism for the removal of the pollinia is much the 

 same as in Orchis, but the two polhnia are attached to one undivided viscid disc, on 

 which account it has sometimes been united with Aceras, in spite of its spur. The 



' Camus, Icon. p. 121 (1928). 



