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Orchis latifolia. In low, damp pastures, wet or boggy meadows 

 and thickets, rarely in dry and elevated situations ; pretty frequent, 

 though much less common than the last. In Sandown marshes, near 

 Shanklin and Appuldurcombe. Very fine at Colwell Bay ; common 

 in meadows at Thorley and in boggy ground below Calbourne Mill. 

 Abundant in boggy meadows at Easton, Freshwater Gate. Common 

 in the great fir and beech plantation on the down above Westover. 

 Wet meadows about Newchurch, &c. Wet meadow betwixt West 

 Mill and Carisbrook ; Mr. Charles D. Snooke. Var. B. incarnata, 

 Bab. Man. p. 310. Boggy ground by the Wilderness, June, 1844. 

 I happen not to have made any notes of the occurrence of this spe- 

 cies in mainland Hants, but feel convinced of having seen it there, 

 and cannot suppose it to be less common in that part of the county 

 than in this or in other parts of England. Distinguished from O. 

 maculata by its much stouter habit, hollow stem, cylindrical and ra- 

 ther obtuse than acute spike of flowers, by the much smaller middle 

 segment of the 3-lobed lip, which is distinctly produced beyond the 

 two lateral, rounded, nearly entire or slightly crenate lobes, that are 

 deflexed, not plane or spreading, as in the other ; by the less attenu- 

 ated, subcylindrical or conical, bluntish spur, always much shorter 

 than the germen, and lastly, by the much larger, longer, more conspi- 

 cuous bracts. Leaves not usually spotted ; flowers here sometimes 

 white. 



pyramidalis. In dry, and particularly hilly meadows, pas- 

 tures, and in grassy woods on the chalk, as also on argillaceous soils 

 containing any notable proportion of calcareous earth ; growing at a 

 lower elevation than O. ustulata, even at the sea-level, but more com- 

 monly in the higher grounds. In many parts of the Isle of Wight 

 abundantly. Not common about Ryde. Plentiful in Binstead stone- 

 pits ; and in the fields by the road from that village to Ryde, spar- 

 ingly. Plentiful in grass fields at Egypt, by West Cowes (the 

 extremest north point of the island), and on the slipped land along 

 the shore to the westward of Cowes. More common on the chalk 

 downs than elsewhere. Abundant on the down (High Down) W. of 

 Freshwater Gate ; near Compton farm and near Yarmouth. Down 

 above the Culver Cliff. Abundant on Carisbrooke Castle Hill, but 

 of small size. Common on grassy slopes at Ventnor. In Calbourne 

 New Barn Hummet, and in the great fir and beech wood along the 

 flank of the down above Westover. On Bembridge Down and in 

 various other places. Some plants gathered in the chalk-pit opposite 



