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field at the end of the fir plantation by Long Lane, near Newport, 

 1841 ; Mr. R. G. Kirkpatrick ! A second specimen gathered in 

 June of the same year by Miss Woodroofe, of Calbourne, near the 

 " high summer-house '■' at Swainston ! both which examples I possess 

 through the kindness of the finders, and are the only ones I have seen 

 from this island, where it has not once occurred to myself in more 

 than twelve years 1 investigation of its floral productions. On Beacon 

 Hill, near Highclere, in tolerable plenty, and still in flower, August 

 9th, 1849. I have received it from Miss Lovell, 1848, gathered, I 

 believe, at Catherington, near Clan field ! Searjeant's Meadow, 

 Warnford ; Mr. Vickery. Field by the Winchester road, near Che- 

 riton ; Miss L. Sibley. Flower Down, near Winton ; Miss L. 

 Legge ! Near Lodge Bere Forest; Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in 

 Hamp. Repos. A more frequent species in the north than in the 

 south of England, but Mr. G. E. Smith tells me it is not uncommon 

 in Sussex in damp meadows at the foot of the downs. 



Habenaria bifolia. In woods, copses, and in open, heathy places; 

 rare in the Isle of Wight, and not yet seen or received by me from 

 mainland Hants, where it must doubtless grow in many of the forest 

 districts, &c* In Stroud Wood, near Aldermoor, by Ryde, not spar- 

 ingly, June 11th, 1838. Two specimens picked on Colwell Heath, 

 June, 1841. In the former station it may, I believe, be found yearly 

 in considerable plenty. Heath between Staplers and Briddlesford, 

 near Newport ; Mr. C. D. Snooke. This is rather a puzzling plant, 

 about the value of which as a species apart from H. chlorantha I have 

 ever entertained considerable doubt. It unquestionably presents 

 some good and apparently permanent characters, and has long been 

 distinguished by Ray and other of the earlier botanists at home and 

 abroad from the larger and commoner H. chlorantha, yet I think the 

 differences betwixt them are such as might be inferred to result from soil 

 and situation. It must be allowed, however, that their distribution is 

 different, H. bifolia being the plant of Sweden, Denmark, and other 

 boreal countries of Europe, as is evident from the figures and descrip- 

 tions of the northern botanists, whilst H. chlorantha inhabits central 

 and southern Europe, and is infinitely more abundant in this part of 

 England than the smaller species. The differences between them 

 have been ably illustrated by Mr. Babington, in the 17th volume of 



* Whether the H. hifolia of Mr. W. L. Notcutt's ' List of Fareham Plants ' (Phy - 

 tol. ii. p. 213) be this species or not, I am uncertain; if it be the true plant, then is 

 Titchfield Common a mainland station, and a very likely one for the lesser Butterfly 

 Orchis. 



