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pots, placed in a cold, shaded frame, plunged in cocoa-nut 
fibre or ashes, and kept moist. In March it may be taken 
into a slightly heated greenhouse, where it will soon push 
into growth and flower. It should never be allowed to 
get dry; introduced in 1731. 
Bieri; Plate, Fig. 2. 
Mabenaria. 
There are about one hundred species of this genus, but 
very few of them are of any value as garden plants. Of 
the three which are natives of this country, only one, viz., 
H. bifolia, has any beauty. Several species from North 
America, also, are sometimes seen in English collections, 
but they are not common. The plants have two tubers, 
leaves and habit as in Orchis, and loose-flowered spikes 
of long-spurred, often fringe-lipped, flowers. 
Culture-—The British species requires the same treat- 
ment as Orchis, but the American kinds must be treated 
as bog-plants, and grown in a shaded situation in peat, 
or peat and chopped sphagnum or leaf-mould. 
H. bifolia.—The British Butterfly Orchid. It grows to 
a height of about 1ft., and has two or three ovate leaves; 
from the centre of these springs the erect, leafy spike of 
white flowers, each Iin. across, and very fragrant. It is 
abundant in open woods and moist meadows, which are 
redolent with the fragrance of its flowers in June or July. 
H. ciliaris.—The Yellow-Fringed Orchis of North 
America, where it is abundant in bogs and wet places, 
flowering in July and August. The leaves are green and 
oblong; the spike is from 14ft. to 2ft. high, and bears a 
crowded head of bright orange-yellow flowers, with rounded 
sepals, linear petals, and an oblong lip, margined with a 
