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FIELD AND WOODLAND PLANTS 



vary in colour from white to a deep purple, have a spur usually 

 tliicker than that of the Spotted Orchis, and a lip indistinctly 

 divided into three lobes, with its sides curved backwards. The 



Rye Grass or Darnel. 



SHEEP'S FESCUE. 



flower, which is rojirescntcd on Plate VI, grows in moist meadows, 

 marshes, and on moors, fiowciing during June and July. 



Another species — the JiutterHy Orchis {Habenaria hij'oliu) — has 

 (usually) imdivided tubers ; a stem from six to twelve inches high 

 with two broad leaves near the base, and surrounded below by a 

 few sheathing scales ; and a rather loose spike of white or greenish 

 flowers with narrow bracts about as lona as the ovaries. The 



