Bren SAND OTHER HARDY ORCHIDS. 531 
September, when the new tuber will have about matured : 
the wrong time to attempt this is when the plants are in 
full flower and the tuber is only partly formed. If collectors 
would bear this in mind, we should not see so many 
thousands of these plants sacrificed in attempts to transfer 
them from fields to cultivation. 
Fig, 117. Orchis foliosa 
(much reduced). 
0. foliosa.—A robust species, from Madeira, allied to 
O. latifolia, and hardy in England. Its stems are about 
3ft. high, with shining green, ovate leaves, Ioin. by 3in., 
2M 2 
