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the Musk Orchis, but a plant so slender and inconspicuous may well 

 be supposed far less rare than it appears to be. 



Spiranthes autumnalis. On dry, open, turf pastures, lawns and 

 heaths; by no means unfrequent in the Isle of Wight, nor, as I 

 believe, throughout the county, but scarcer in some years than in 

 others. So generally dispersed, and withal so uncertain in its sta- 

 tions, that a long enumeration of special localities would be unneces- 

 sary and often lead to disappointment, since it is continually making 

 its appearance abundantly in new or unobserved habitats and disap- 

 pearing as suddenly in old ones. Sometimes plentiful about Ryde 

 and places in the vicinity, as at St. John's, Seagrove, Nettlestone, St. 

 Helen's, &c. Fields and pastures in various places along the Under- 

 cliff, frequent. Near Hardingshoot farm, and on the turf near San- 

 down Fort. Fields about Chale ; Miss Lucas. Northwood Park ; 

 Miss G. E. Kilderbee. Mount Cleve, Niton; the Miss Sims's!!! 

 Near Carisbrook Castle, Colwell and Freshwater, Sir Nash Grose's 

 (the Priory) grounds, near Ryde ; Mr. W. D. Snooke. On St. George's 

 Down (near Newport). Field opposite Alverton farm, Whippingham 

 parish. Pastures west of Fishbourne Creek, through which a new 

 road (leading nowhere) has been lately made ; Mr. Charles D. 

 Snooke. Occurs here and there in most other parts of the island. 

 Picked in Hayling Island, September, 1849. In great abundance in 

 Cranbury Park, near Winton ; Miss A. M. Yonge (in litt.). Wheely 

 Down, Old Winchester Hill (near Petersfield) ; Rev. E. M. Sladen. 

 In the Long Lith, and towards the south corner of the (Selborne) 

 Common; Rev. G. White. Woodcote, Sutton Common, near Alton; 

 Miss L. Sibley. Lawn at Mr. Osborne's (Fareham); Mr. W. L. 

 Notcutt. Magdalene Hill, St. Giles's Hill, grass plats in the warden's 

 garden (Winton) ; Dr. A. D. White. To the majority of persons this 

 plant smells delightfully fragrant, but to myself it is nearly inodorous, 

 as is also the following, and all the exotic species, as S. gracilis, 

 tortilis, &c, I have gathered in other countries. 



cestivalis. In boggy places, by streams and ponds; 



very rare. Discovered just ten years ago by Mr. Branch* in the New 

 Forest, along a stream on a small tract of sphagnous bog close by the 

 high road, about two miles and a half from Lyndhurst, towards 

 Christchurch, and where it was gathered by Mr. Borrer and myself 

 in considerable plenty, August 6th and 7th, 1841, growing with My- 

 rica, Narthecium, Drosera longifolia and Rhynchospora alba, &c. 



* Or by Mr. Jansen, according to Watson, Cyb. Brit. ii. p. 414. 



