1861.] BRITISH ORCHIDS. 175 



flower yearly. This Orchis is in my opinion by far the sweetest 

 scented of the whole tribe. — N.B. This flowers a month later 

 than the larger kind. 



At page 76. — An elegant kind of Bee Orchis, with white 

 wings, and the body of a yellowish shade, growing at or near 

 Rancomb, in Gloucestershire, was found by Mr. Robins, of Bath, 

 one root of which, as well as an elegant painting of the same, we 

 received irom Mr. Haviland, of Bath. Mr. Robins gathered ten 

 or twelve in full bloom in 1760. 



At page 85. — In the year 1787 I had a present of three roots 

 of the Wasp Orchis (?) , found at Clifton, near Bristol, of which 

 one root flowered finely in the year 1791 ; the lip very narrow, 

 yellow, and streaked with dark purple, very analogous to the 

 insect it is named after. 



At page 86. — In July, 1788, found, for the first time, after 

 many years' inquisition in Harcfield chalk-pit, the common Bee 

 Orchis, not in the area, but on the bank upon the right-hand side ; 

 and in July, 1790, another plant of the same, together with (for 

 the first time) several very strong roots of the common Fly Orchis, 

 never in the course of twenty-six or twenty-seven years observed 

 by me before, although I had searched for it at various times; 

 found also abundance of Orchis pyramidalis, and of O. conopsea ; 

 but of O. militaris, and of 0. ustulata I never could (after the 

 most diligent investigation) meet with a single plant. 



The whole of the above is copied from the interleaved copy of 

 Blackstone's ' Harefield Plants,' as before mentioned. Some of 

 the entries are evidently by Peter Collinson, and others in the 

 handwriting of his son Michael Collinson. 



The following, extracted from Mr. Dillwyn's privately printed 

 account of the garden at Mill Hill, will form an interesting 

 appendage to the present paper. Under the article Ophrys 

 muscifera, at p. 36 of the ' Hortus Collinsonianus,' we read : — 

 "Mem., July 4th, 1757. Went to the Duke of Portland's, at 

 Bulstrode ; stayed to the 11th. In returning found the great 

 Fly Orchis on the declivity of a chalk-pit in Esquire Cook's 

 park, in the parish of Harefield, Middlesex ; but there is one 

 Miles, a parson, of Cowley, near Uxbridge, who is Orchis-mad, 

 and takes all up, leaves none to seed, so extirpates all wherever 

 he comes, which is cruel, and deserves chastisement." And a 



