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The only station yet known for this fine species in Britain (exclud- 

 ing, of course, the Jersey locality), but it will probably be soon de- 

 tected in other parts of the county and beyond its limits.* Some of 

 my specimens are a foot in height. Dr. Gray seems to consider the 

 S. latifolia of Torrey as identical with our S. aestivalis, but the former 

 I do not remember ever to have seen. I have gathered a species 

 very like our own in the mountains of Jamaica. Richard's generic 

 name Spiranthes is admirably characteristic of the twisted or spiral 

 arrangement of the flowers, and would have been worthy of adoption 

 had not still stronger reasons called for its employment in place of 

 Neottia, now restricted to the true Bird's-nest, 2V. Nidus-avis, origi- 

 nally so named by Linnaeus. 



Listera ovata. In dampish woods, thickets, copses and under 

 trees in shady pastures ; very frequent in the Isle of Wight, and I 

 believe throughout Hampshire. Plentiful in Quarr Copse, Apley 

 Wood, and most other woods about Ryde. Woods about Cowes. 

 Abundant in Tolt Copse, Gatcombe. In Appuldurcombe Park. 

 About Carisbrooke Castle, and in woods and shady places in most 

 other parts of the island. Pasture field at Boldre Hill. Frequent in 

 the beech woods of the mainland. Maindell chalk-pit (Fareham) ; 

 Mr. W. L. Notcutt. Betwixt Hursley and Otterbourne; Dr. A. D. 

 White. N. B. — Listera cordata, a species frequent in the north of 

 England, has been found near Culbone, in Devonshire, and in Somer- 

 setshire, and may possibly be some day discovered on our highest 

 Hampshire Hills. 



Neottia Nidus-avis. Mostly sporadical in moist shady woods and 

 copses, usually amongst dead leaves ; not very common, although 

 pretty generally dispersed over the island and county. In Quarr 

 Copse occasionally, where I have repeatedly found it in a hollow (old 

 stone pit), on the left of the entrance at Binstead, as well as in other 

 parts of the wood, but rarely. Wood near East Cowes Castle. 

 Hungerberry Copse, near Shanklin. Swainston Woods. Calbourne 

 New Barn Hummet. Cleveland Wood, Appuldurcombe. Woods at 

 the Priory, occasionally. Cothey bottom Copse, by Westridge. Se- 

 veral specimens in the large plantation of Scotch fir in Bordwood 

 Copse, June 1st, 1845. In Northlands Copse, Yaverland, July, 1848. 

 At Fernhill, but not seen there of late ; Mrs. Sanders. In great 

 Whitcomb Wood, near Gatcombe ; Mr. G. Kirkpatrick ! A speci- 



* I learn from Mr. Borrev that it is found in other spots in the neighbourhood of 

 Lyndhurst, and that it is still abundant in the original station (March, 1850). 



