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the Mountjoy bastion (Carisbrook Castle) had the protuberances of 

 the lip much elongated and leaf-like, July 18th, 1849 ; Mr. Charles 

 D. Snooke (in litt.). I presume this species to be frequent over the 

 county, but I have few data for showing its distribution on the main 

 land, not happening to have noticed it there myself, excepting, if I 

 remember right, about Bordean Hill. Otterbourne ; Miss A. M. 

 Yonge. Bordean ; Miss L. Sibley, and (with white flowers) Rev. 

 Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. Maindell chalk-pit 

 (Fareham) ; Mr. W. L. Notcutt. The flowers of this beautiful spe- 

 cies vary with us from the deepest rose red to white. 



The Lizard Orchis (Satyrium hircinum), it is far from improbable 

 may eventually be found in Hants, since it grows in the adjoining 

 county of Surrey, if not now extirpated by the rapacity of botanical 

 collectors and the cupidity of orchis-rearing nursery-men. In our 

 more retired and less explored county it might long vegetate unno- 

 ticed and undisturbed, and should "be looked for on dry, bushy, chalky 

 banks and hills. It has lately been found (a single specimen 1 be- 

 lieve only) at Great Glenham, in Suffolk, and although not indicated 

 as a native of Ireland in the Manual, is mentioned as such in the 

 ' Plantas Rariores Hiberniae ' of Dr. Wade ; and when last in Dublin 

 Mr. D. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, told me he had 

 himself met with it in that country, and communicated the redisco- 

 very of this rare species to Dr. J. T. Mackay, in whose ' Flora Hiber- 

 nica,' however, it does not appear. It is clear, therefore, that O. 

 hircina has a very wide distribution in Britain, but is extremely local, 

 and usually very sporadic ; and since we are here but little removed 

 from the part of England where it occurs with greatest frequency, the 

 prospect is the fairer of ultimately detecting it within the limits of 

 this county. 



Gymnadenia conopsea. In dry heathy or chalky pastures, or in 

 wet, peaty, boggy or clayey ground, not common, though found in 

 several parts of the county and Isle of Wight. Extremely fine and 

 plentiful on very wet banks of slipped clay in Colwell Bay, Fresh- 

 water, and in boggy ground at the upper end of Colwell Heath ; first 

 remarked there by the Rev. G. E. Smith, who justly observes that 

 the plant has a mixed odour of the hyacinth with that more proper to 

 the species, which much resembles the fragrance of the clove pink. 

 On Freshwater Down ; common, 1841. On chalky slopes at Apes 

 Down, June, 1846. Bank opposite Madeira Villa, Ventnor; Miss 

 Hadfield!! (it grows also in the Chicken pits and elsewhere in that 

 place). Carisbrook Castle, S. and E. moats and ramparts, and heath 



