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Dawson Turner in Snooke's Fl. Vect. !!!* Plentiful on the sloping 

 sides of the valley by Calbourne New Barn ; the late Lady Simeon!!! 

 Sloping pasture at Apes Down ; Mr. Charles D. Snooke. Littleton 

 or Flower Down, near Winton ; Rev. Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in 

 Hamp. Repos. and Dr. A. D. White !!! Pinks Hill (near Warnford) ; 

 Rev. E. M. Sladen. Bordean ; Miss L. Sibley. Hardly to be met 

 with in the lower and level country. The name of ustulata is very 

 appropriate to the burned or singed aspect given to the summit of the 

 spike by the purple brown colour of the flower-buds. 



Obs. Orchis laxijlor a, a species common in the Channel Islands and 

 on the continent of Europe, will probably ere long be discovered in 

 Britain. f Dr. Salter found June 5th, 1845, at Spring Vale, near 

 Ryde, a variety of O. Morio " with the upper (lateral) sepals reflexed 

 in the advanced flowers." The specimens he kindly gave me are 

 taller than is usual in this species, and have many (3 — 5) nerved 

 bracts, but so, we have seen, has O. Morio, from which they differ in 

 no other particular than that above stated. I should guess the figure 

 of O. laxiflora in E. B. to be an indifferent one, and it looks much as 

 if drawn and coloured from a dried specimen. 



maculata. In dry or damp, and even wet meadows, 



woods, thickets, pastures, and on heaths ; abundantly throughout 

 Hants. Assuredly very closely allied to O. latifolia, but distinguished 

 by its (always ?) solid, not hollow stern,! pyramidal, somewhat acute 

 spike, by the much smaller and shorter bracts, more slender and 

 pointed spur, and by the broader and shorter lip, the central lobe of 

 which is about equal to the two lateral lobes, that are notched on 

 their margins, and usually, but not invariably, flat or spreading, some- 

 times deflexed. The plant is commonly shorter and far less robust 

 than O. latifolia, but is extremely variable in the colour and markings 

 of the flowers and in the form and proportions of the lip. " A variety 

 with blood- red flowers was found in this island by the Rev. R. Price, 

 of Lyminge, Kent, and is now growing in his garden." Rev. G. E. 

 Smith (in litt.). 



* Several stations for plants were communicated to Mr. S. by that accomplished 

 botanist and antiquary. 



f Mr. Borrer informs me that O. palustris is reported to have occurred in the Isle 

 of Wight; what this may be I do not know, since I am told it is not the same thing 

 as O. laxiflora, to which the O. palustris of Jacquin is referred as a synonym in Steu- 

 del's Nomenclator, in which work no other species is mentioned bearing the latter 

 name. 



| The cavity in the stem is filled up with loose cellular tissue, but is not truly 

 solid. 



