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1443. E. violacea, Bor. 8 9, P. Woods ; rare. 



1. Two or three stools appeared in a wood among the 



meadows, half a mile to the E. of the Salt Box, 

 Cudham, '03- '09, but in '06 the accumulation of 

 undergrowth prevented the plants from appearing. 

 W.H.G. 



2. Crookhorn Woods, above Ryarsh. Rogers. 



1445. E. longifolia, All. (PALUSTRIS, Crantz), 6 7, P. Boggy 



places, usually among bushes or long herbage ; local ; for 

 our districts old records only : 



a. Near Bexley, 1821. Graves. 



b. In the old chalk-pits by the White House in the road 



from Eltham to N. Cray, 1724. 



c. First and earliest British record, 1655 : St. Mary Cray. 



(402) ORCHIS, L. 



1446. 0. hircina, Crantz, (LIZARD 0.), 5, P. Copses and bushy banks 



on the chalk, now almost extinct, and certainly extinct in 

 the localities mentioned below. 



a. Quarry at Greenhithe, 1879. 



b. Between Crayford and Dartford, 1641. 



c. Hollow Dean Field, Sutton, 1809. 



1447. 0. pyramidalis, L. 7, P. Fairly frequent on dry chalk banks ; 



Lepidoptera flowers. 



1. Down, '92. Kennard. 



2. High Elms. Playfair. 



3. Downs at Eynsford, '06. R.H.C. 



4. Upper slopes on both sides of the Vale of Cudham, and 



of the chalk valley between Down and Keston, 

 '06. W.H.G. 



a. Charlton chalk-pit, 1836. 



b. First record, 1746 : near Dartford. 



1448. 0. ustulata, L. 6, P. Chalk downs ; rare ; probably extinct 



in our district. 



a. Dartford Brent, 1821. Graves. 



b. Here and there on the chalk between Knockholt and 



Wrotham, 1845. 



1449. 0. purpurea, Huds. (under MILITARIS, B.), 5, P. Chalky 



bushy hills in Kent ; rather rare. 



1. Woods near Upper Hailing, Crookham Wood. Dod. 



2. Downs above Paddlesworth, near Snodland. H. 



3. Otford. Holmes. 



a. Gad's Hill, 1666 ; Northfleet, 1724. 



