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liad not been removed were in the upper flowers 

 beneath the buds, and many of these would probably 

 have been subsequently carried away. I have often 

 found an abundance of pollen on the stigmas of flowers 

 which had not their own pollinia removed, showing- 

 that they had been visited by insects. In many other 

 •cases the pollinia had been removed, but no pollen had 

 been as yet left on the stigmas. 



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Orchis raorio. Three small plimts. N. 

 Kent .... 



Orchis morio. Thirty-eight plants. N.^ 

 Kent. Tliese plants were examined' 

 after nearly four weeks of extraordi- 

 narily cold and wet weather in 1S60; 

 and tlierefore under the most unfavour-| 

 able circumstances . . . J 



Orchis pyrauiidalis. Two plants. N.\ 

 Kent and Devonshire. . . ./ 



Orcliis pyramidalis. Six plants from twol 

 protected valleys. Devonshire . . ( 



Orchis pyramidalis. Six plants from al 

 much exjwsed bank. Devonshire . j 



Orchis maculata. One plant. Stafford-'^ 

 shire. Of the twelve floweis which had| 

 not their pollinia removed, the greater ■ 

 number were young flowers under the 

 buds 



Orchis maculata. One plant. Surrey . 



Two plants. N. and^ 

 . . . ./ 



from S. 

 Maiden. 



Orchis maculata 



S. Kent . 

 Orchis latifolia. Nine plants 



Kent, sent me by the Ilev. B. S 



The flowers were all mature 

 Orchis fusca. 'i'wo plants. S. Kent.l 



Flowers quitemature, and even withered/ 

 Aceras anthropophom. Fonr plants. S. 



Kent 



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