174 BRITISH ORCHIDS. [Jime, 



since in Heath Lane and in Stanhill chalk-pit; the flowers are 

 of gigantic size in the Orchis bed. Again, in May of the year 

 1767, I found, in an old chalk-pit near Dartford Heath, several 

 plants of the Tragorchis; also six or seven of the larger Fly 

 Orchis, growing upwards of a foot in height. There had been a 

 destroyer in the same pit a little before me, who had (by the 

 holes in the turf) carried away with him in full flower near seventy 

 roots, most of which would undoubtedly perish, and thus this spe- 

 cies of Orchis rare to be met with here for the future. 



Ophrys aranifera: On the 11th of May, 1767, I have found 

 two roots of this, the early green- winged Bee Orchis in the chalk- 

 pits of Greenhithe, and after, upon the same day, I found great 

 plenty of them growing on an old stony, barren kind of heath, 

 between Greenhithe and Northfleet, on the right hand of the 

 road, and some little distance from it. 



At page 72. — The greater Fly Orchis : it flowers early in May 

 at this present year, 1760 ; we received three roots of it from a 

 gentleman at Bath, making a fine appearance in our collection 

 here. 



Orchis viridis ; I never yet gathered it wild : it hath been 

 communicated to us by our before-mentioned friend at Bath, 

 and it shows for flower this year, 1 760, 



At page 73, — Neottia spiralis : this flowers the latest of all the 

 Orchis kind ; we observed some years since that it grew plentifully 

 in a field adjoining to our garden here at Mill Hill ; also in an- 

 other field at Highwood Hill abundantly, both very dry and barren 

 spots ; it smells very sweet, but what is most remarkable is, that 

 though growing on the spot, with all the advantage of removing 

 with large sods of earth, and to a soil in a manner its own, yet 

 we have never been able to continue this little difiicult plant 

 above one season in our Orchis bed. 



At page 74. — Orchis chlorantha, the smaller Butterfly Sa- 

 tyrion : my father saw this Orchis growing in a wood between 

 Hampstead and Highgate (now the property of Lord Mansfield, 

 and since enclosed by him with pales) ; it succeeded well for some 

 years in the garden, and then went oft'. I saw this plant, in 1756, 

 growing in great abundance for more than two miles' riding 

 among the bushes in Enfield Chase, between Southgate and the 

 Lodge, now in the possession of Mr, Jalabert (1760) ; there is 

 one plant remaining of it in the Orchis bed, which continues to 



