2i6 NATIVE BRITISH ORCHIDACE^ 



lata X O.purpurella was received by him from Ambleside, and it frequently occurred 

 in Arran There is the same fine colour as in the case of x O. insignis (O. latifoha x pur- 

 purella), but the side-lobes of the lip are nearly always narrower, and the mid-lobe 

 is larae and deeply divided from the side-lobes. The leaves are heavily or faintly 

 blotched and the lip-pattern is of more or less broken lines. Only one of the speci- 

 mens found had the dwarf habit and small spots oi O.purpurella, the flowers, however 

 beino intermediate. A fine specimen was found at Llandovery in 1926, and cultivated 

 by Mr St Quintin, at Scampston Hall, the spike of July, 1928, being figured m PI. 52. 

 Several handsome specimens were seen by me in Teesdale in July, 1930, with the 

 taller stem, conical spike and oval leaf-spots of 0. maculata, but flowers shaped, 

 coloured and marked as in 0. purpurella, though paler. 



ORCHIS MACULATA sub-sp. ELODES x PURPURELLA 

 PI. 53 C. xOrchis formosa Steph. p. and f.' 



Resembles the preceding. Leaves rather darker, greyish green. Spike small. Flower 

 distinctly suggestive of O. elodes by the long narrow spreading sepals, longer ob-cordate 

 lip with rounded crenate side-lobes and smaU mid-lobe, by the disconnected lines 

 and spots, not so brilliant as in the preceding, but reproducing the fine colour of 

 O.purpurella, and by the longer almost cylindrical spur, nearly equalUng the ovary, and 

 but little enlarged at the throat. 



Habitat. Old pasture, Aberystwyth! Arran (Stephenson). Only about slx plants 

 seen altogether. One specimen was seen by me in Teesdale in July, 1930, m a marsh 

 where both parents grew. 



ORCHIS MACULATA sub-sp. ELODES x PR^TERMISSA 



xO. HaUiiDr. 



Dr Druce believes that this combination was present in plants found at Perranwell 

 (Cornwall), Wool (Dorset), Odiham (Hants.), Charlbury (Oxon.), Cothill (Berks.), 

 Hornstock (Northants.), etc., and usually occurred in a greater percentage than 

 0. maculata x 0. pratermissa. The lip varied from 14 mm. broad at Wool to 11 mm. 

 at Odiham, the markings being more variable and not so well defined as in the hybrid 

 with 0. maculata, than wliich it is often a more handsome plant, owing to the broad 

 labellum and large side-lobes. The whole flower is often suffused with a brighter 

 colour than O. pj-a:termissa {B.E.C. p. 157 (^^^l))' Hants, {loc. cit. p. 166).^ 



=' P.^HaU^ (after whom this hybrid was named) found a good station for it in Hants, in 1932, 

 where there was no other orchid to suggest a different parentage. 



