ORCHIDACE^. 



Great Elm. Dr. H. F. Parsons. Uphill, in great 

 profusion, 1885. VI. VII. 



740. 0. mUSCifera, Buds. Fly Orchis. 



Native ; in woods, on bushy banks, and occasionally on 

 downs, rare, but well distributed. 



G. Many old writers agree in stating that this Ophrys 

 used to grow with the Bee Orchis on St. Vincent's 

 Rocks and on Clifton Down ; and that it was at one 

 time even more plentiful than the latter. Towards the 

 end of the last century " the high ground at the back of 

 the Old Well House" was especially singled out as a 

 favourite station for the Fly Orchis. It is unnecessary 

 to dwell upon the circumstances which have long ago 

 unfitted this locality for the growth of Orchids. But 

 still we believe that even now, in spite of all the 

 changes a century has effected, few summers pass in 

 which this delicate and dainty species is not detected, 

 either upon St. Vincent's Rocks or among the bushy 

 slopes adjacent. Woods near Dursley; Herb. Stephens. 



S. Leigh W^ood ; constant in several spots, both in deep 

 shade and also on the open stony banks above the river. 

 Many localities near Bath are given in the Flora 

 Bathoniemis, and we ourselves have seen it, several 

 years in succession, in and about a wood near Fortnight 

 not far from the Cephal anther a grandiflora. Woods at 

 Weston-in-Gordano, constant. " The Fly Orchis grows 

 in Limeridge Wood near Tickenham." Butter's Hist. 

 N. W. Somerset. This statement has been confirmed 

 several times during the last half century, and as lately 

 as June, 1885. by Mr. D. Fry. VI. 



HERMINIUM, E. Br. 



741. H. Monorchis, E. Br. Musk Orchis. 

 Native ; very rare. 



