THE 
JOURNAL OP BOTANY, 
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
NEOTINEA INTACTA, Rchh.Jil., THE NEW IRISH OECHID. 
By H. G. Eeichenbach, Ph.D. 
(Plate XXV.) 
In tlie ' Journal of Botany ' for August, 1864, p. 238, it was announced 
by Dr. D. Moore that Neotinea intacta had been found in calcareous 
pastures, at' Castle Taylor, county of Galway, Ireland, by Miss More. 
This Tvas a great botanical surprise. To me this Orchid has been 
oue of the most difficult to understand. Though examining a great 
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number of buds and flowers, I could not succeed in obtaining a 
correct idea of the structure of the column, as I commeuced my in- 
vestigation with the preconceived opinion that the plant ought to 
agree in structure with that of the other European OphrydetB. In my 
* European Orchidography ' I followed Lindley, who had seen the 
living plant, but who, probably misled by the lip, referred it to Aceras, 
I restored the oldest specific name {Orchis iniada^ Lk., 1799), and re- 
marked that I had neither seen the glandule nor the caudicula^ and 
that it appeared to me as if fertilization took place in the bud (Orchid* 
Europ. p. 3). Only after the publication of that work, was I so for- 
tunate as to see in the Leipzig Botanic Garden a living specimen, a 
few buds of which supplied me with materials — indifferent though 
they were — for renewed examination. I now began to perceive why I 
formerly failed. The whole structure of the column bears no relation 
to that of any Ophrydea of Europe, and comes nearer to that of the 
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