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between Staplers and Briddlesford ; Mr. Charles D. Snooke. It 

 seems not less frequent on mainland Hants. About Petersfield, West 

 Meon, &c, not rare; Miss L. Sibley!!! Otterbourne ; Miss A. M. 

 Yonge (inlitt.). Plantation behind Wheely Cottage (near Warnford) ; 

 Oliver's Battery, near Winton ; Rev. E. M. Sladen. Abundant on 

 Littleton or Flower Down, near Winton ; Dr. A. D. White. Pro- 

 bably in very many other parts of the county ; most likely frequent 

 in the forest tracts, as I think it is in Sussex. The plant as it grows 

 on bog at Colwell is often very large, eighteen to twenty inches high 

 or upwards, with very densely-flowered spikes, and leaves an inch or 

 nearly so in width, but sometimes in equally wet soil extremely nar- 

 row and erect. This form may possibly be the G. densiflora of 

 Dietrich's ' Flora Marchica,' p. 164, whilst another variety with ex- 

 cessively narrow leaves, and a somewhat lax or open spike, and of 

 humbler stature, growing on dry chalk soil at Ventnor, may be what 

 he intends by the true G. conopsea of that work, and which 1 sup- 

 posed might prove identical with the true G. odoratissima, Rich. 

 (Orchis odoratissima, Linn.), but that species, if it be not a mere va- 

 riety of G. conopsea, is distinguished by its much shorter spur, and 

 narrower, cylindrical, not conical spikes of very minute flowers. The 

 delightful fragrance of this plant is most powerful towards evening, 

 and in those plants that grow in damp situations, for on dry soils it is 

 nearly inodorous. G. albida (Habenaria albida, R. Br.) is reported 

 in ' Cybele Britannica' as found in Hants on the authority of the Rev. 

 S. Palmer, and has indubitably occurred in one locality in Sussex.* 

 I have never seen Hampshire specimens of this rather northern than 

 southern and mountain-loving species, but there is good ground for 

 hoping it will some day reward the investigator of our county flora 

 on hilly heaths. The curious Green Man Orchis {Aceras anthropo- 

 phora) is a still more likely plant to occur, and I have indeed heard 

 from Miss E. Sibley that it has been found at East Woodhay, in the 

 north of the county, which, although on unconfirmed and anonymous 

 authority, is very probably correct, seeing that it grows abundantly 

 in certain parts of Surrey and in Berks, and may therefore be ex- 

 pected with the greatest reason in such districts of Hants at least as 

 adjoin on those two counties. 



Habenaria viridis. In hilly, heathy and grassy pastures, or in low 

 meadows ; very rare in the Isle of Wight, and not at all common in 

 the rest of the county. A single specimen picked in a rough pasture 



* Jeuner's Fl. of Tunbridge Wells, p. 45. 



