353 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [November. 



ambitu serrata sunt, et per alas ordine disposita), unum tamen genus ex 

 atro virentia ea obtinet et splendentia, alia minime ; genusque aliud inve- 

 nitur, cujus folia in lacinias sunt divisa." 



Note. — In addition to the above authorities, this form is noticed by 

 Poiret under P. dissecta laciniata ; by Thore under P. laciniata, and by 

 Moench under Tragoselinum dissectum. The bantling need not be ashamed 

 of its sponsors. E. 



Kentish Orchids. 



Notice of some plants, especially Orchids, found in Kent by Gr. C. Ox- 

 enden, Esq. — Mr. Oxenden says : " I have seen some very fine sights this 

 May and June, viz. vast tracts of steep picturesque grass-hills extending for 

 some miles, and throughout their whole length, decked and garnished with 

 one or other of the following plants : Oplirys arayiifera and 0. muscifera. 

 Orchis ustulata (a lovely Orchid) and Habenaria bifolia. All this vast 

 range of hills slopes to the south and south-west. The east side of the 

 same rang'e is all forest ground, and it affords in abundance eveiy variety of 

 Orchis fusca, from a dull white to a very deep mulberiy-colour, and in size 

 over twenty inches. These same woody banks yield a few specimens of 

 the strange Lathraa Squamaria, and more to the eastward I find the 

 truly curious Monotropa Hypopitys. Near the place from which I write 

 (Broome Park, near Canterbury), grows the monarch of Orchids, Orchis 

 hircina, the Lizard Orchid ; and within fifty yards of my own house I have" 

 one growing which at this moment (25th June, 1860) is 29^ inches highj 

 and with nearly fifty lizards upon it. Next mouth (July) will afford me 

 very fine specimens of Ophrys arachnites, and if you have never seen the 

 wonderful varieties of this Orchid, they will astonish you. Some of the 

 varieties of the Bee Orchis are also exceedingly curious, In August we 

 get Ilerminium Monorchis in abimdance, very minute, very fragant, and 

 under the microscope the most beautiful object imaginable. In July and 

 August we have Epipactis latifolia and E. purptirata in tolerable abund- 

 ance." — From the ' Gardeners Chronicle^ September 1, 1860. 



In the 'Gardeners' Chronicle' for September 1, 1860, there is a very 

 plain and sensible article on the direction of the roots of plants, illus- 

 trated by the roots of Fothos, Monntera, and Athurium, growing in a 

 shady stove at the residence of Mr. W. Saunders, Red Hill, Eeigate. We 

 have not room for the article, but merely refer such of our readers as are 

 interested in this subject, to the article above quoted. 



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 John Sim; H. C. ; Vascidum; B. Carringdon, M.D. ; N.H.E.Z. ; Sidney 

 Beisley ; B. M. Watkins ; W. P. ; Charies C. Babington ; J. Sadler; J. E. ; 

 A. Briggs; J. B. Wood, M.D., M.E.C.S. ; Dr. Windsor; Eev. A. M. 

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