Il8 NOTES ON TriE DORSET FLORA. 



High Hall ; Shapwick ; Woolbridge, and along the Peat Moors 

 River ; Edmondsham. G. Swanage ; Corfe Castle ; Wool- 

 garston ; Arne. This species is commoner than the Flora of 

 Dorset leads one to suppose. 



O. maculata, L., and O. ericeiorum, Linton, have in the past 

 been united under the former name as the Spotted Orchis, but 

 are now placed in the new edition of the London Catalogue as 

 separate species. O. maculafa, L., has generally rather broader 

 leaves and an ovate-cylindrical spike ; the lip is divided in three 

 subequal deltoid lobes, of which the middle lobe is slightly the 

 longest. Its habitat is in open woods, waysides, and banks, 

 chalk downs, &c. No localities are given in the Flora, and I 

 have few notes of this segregate, which is probably well 

 distributed and fairly common, except in the heath districts. D. 

 Morden. E. Compton Abbas. F. Badbury Rings ; Shapwick ; 

 W. M. Rogers. Westley Wood ; Hemsworth Down ; Crichel ; 

 Verwood ; Sutton Holms ; Edmondsham ; near Stourpaine and 

 Bonslea Chase. G. Swanage and near Langton Wood, W. M. 

 Rogers. Woolgarston ; Corfe Castle. O. ericetonim, Linton. 

 This begins flowering two or three weeks before the last species, 

 soon after the middle of May in an average season. Its leaves 

 are rather narrow and often recurved in the upper part ; the lip 

 of the flower is broadly expansive and unequally divided ; the 

 side lobes are broad, crenate, seldom pointed ; the mid-lobe is 

 small, triangular, scarcely as long as the prominent side lobes, 

 and, being usually more or less recurved, looks shorter than it 

 really is. This species occurs freely in the moister parts of 

 heaths and in boggy meadows, and avoids the chalk and all stiff 

 soil. Several localities were given in a former paper. I add F. 

 Moist meadows, Edmondsham ; moist pasture of a fibrous soil 

 near Sutton Holms, but in St. Giles Parish. O. ericetorum x 

 latifolia. F. Two wet meadows near the R. Cran, Edmondsham, 

 where both species grow together. 



Ophrys api'Jera, Huds., Bee Orchis. F. By a chalk-pit near 

 Holwell, Cranborne, and in a rough pasture near Castle Hill, in 

 Edmondsham. G. Near Chapman's Pool ; near Norden Farm, 



