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men found on the lawn at St. John's, Ryde, June, 1843, by Mr. J. 

 Lawrence, jun. Equally, if not more frequent on mainland Hants, 

 so far as my observation has extended. Hampnage Wood, Avington, 

 near Winton, 1848. In a high wood at Bordean, apparently frequent, 

 July, 1848. Akenden Wood, near Alton, 1849. Westbury, Brook- 

 wood, Selborne ; Miss E. Sibley !!! About West Meon, Beacon Hill 

 Wood; Rev. E. M. Sladen. Holt and Wickham Woods; Rev. 

 Messrs. Gamier and Poulter in Hamp. Repos. Selborne, "in the 

 Long Lith, under the shady beeches amongst the dead leaves ; in 

 Great Dorton, among the bushes, and on the Hanger plentifully ; 

 Rev. G. White and Professor Bell !!! Highclere Park ; Cat. of Pis. 

 of Newbury. This plant is readily detected at all seasons, as the 

 dry stems and firm subligneous capsules are persistent in the woods 

 for a year or two after flowering. To myself the flowers of this sin- 

 gular species have the odour of Adoxa Moschatellina mingled with 

 that of primroses, but fainter. From the researches of the late Hon. 

 and very Rev. W. Herbert, there is no reason for holding this plant 

 to be parasitical, much as its structure and habit appear to counte- 

 nance such a propensity. The singular leafless Limodorum abortivum I 

 conceive extremely likely to be discovered in England eventually, as 

 it appears to be by no means very rare in the northern departments 

 of France, and is also native to Belgium and other parts of central 

 Europe. 



Epipactis latifolia. In moist, shady and rocky woods and thickets, 

 not confined to hilly places, but found at the sea level both on the 

 chalk and clay, as well as on the uplands. By no means uncommon 

 either in the Isle of Wight or on the mainland of the county, but 

 rarely in any great plenty. All the plants found by me in the island 

 are, I think, referrible to the true E. latifolia of the Manual, and to no 

 other, at least I could never distinguish satisfactorily any form exactly 

 corresponding to the E. media of Fries, although the leaves vary much 

 in shape and breadth with us. In Quarr Copse, Binstead, here and 

 there, but sparingly. Quite frequent, it may almost be called plenti- 

 ful, in the wooded ground skirting the shore betwixt Ryde and Bin- 

 stead, exactly the E. latifolia of the Manual, the flowers here variously 

 suffused with purple, sometimes wholly of a pale green. Not unfre- 

 quent in the rocky, woody landslip between Luccombe and Bon- 

 church. Woods at Swainston occasionally, Kingston Copse, Tolt 

 Copse, near Gatcombe. Rather plentiful in the great plantation on 

 the down above Westover. A single specimen in a wood at Rowledge, 

 and another seen in Sluccombe Copse, 1845. Westwood, and in 



