GYMNADENIA. - NEOTINEA. 401 



spur very short E. B. 34. R. xiii. 359, 360. St. 23 feet 

 high. " Gal. green, spotted with dull purple internally." Lip 

 purplish white and spotted at the base, an inch or more long. 

 Bushy chalk hills, very rare. Kent. .Surrey. Gt. Glenham, 

 Stiff.! P. V. Lizard Orchis. E. 



2. GYMNADE'NIA R. Br. 



1. G. conops'ea (R. Br.) ; lip 3-lobed, lobes equal entire, blunt, 

 lateral sep. spreading, spur filiform twice as long as the germen, 

 root-knobs palmate. E. B. 10. St. a foot high. L. linear- 

 lanceolate. Spike cylindrical, elongated. Bracts 3- veined. Fl. 

 rose-purple, fragrant. Pollen-cells open in front and below, 

 stopped below by oblong glutinous valves quite distinct from the 

 stigma, and to the broader ends of which the glands of the pol- 

 len-masses are attached. [A hybrid with Sp. 2 is recorded. J. of B. 

 1898, p. 352.] Hilly pastures. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



2. G. albida (Rich.) ; lip 3-lobed, lobes unequal entire, middle 

 lobe longest and broadest, sep. and lateral pet. converging, spur 

 much shorterthan the germen, root-knobs clustered. Habenaria 

 R. Br. E. B. 505. Peristijlus Lindl. St. 612 in. high. L. 

 oblong, blunt ; upper lanceolate, acute. Spike elongated, cylin- 

 drical, dense. Bracts 3-veined. Fl. small, yellowish white, 

 fragrant. Mountain-pastures. P. VI. VII. E. S. I. 



3. A'CEEAS R. Br. 



1. A. anthropoph' ora (R. Br.) ; lip 3-parted, segments linear- 

 filiform, middle one bifid and often with an intermediate tooth. 

 E.B.y.Q. ^.xiii. 357. Root-knobs ovate. Height 8 12 in. 

 Spike long, lax. Fl. greenish yellow. Sep. ovate, acute, con- 

 verging, margined with purple, including the linear-lanceolate 

 blunt petals. Dry chalky places. P. VI. Green-man Orchis. E. 



4. NEOTIN'EA Reichenb. 



1. N. intac'ta (Reich.*) ; lip 3-lobed, lobes unequal, lateral 

 lobes linear acute falling much short of the broad oblong interm. 

 lobe. Sy. E. B. 1465. J. ofB. iii. t. 25. Habenaria Benth. 

 Height 2 12 inches. Spike dense, cylindrical. Fl. very 

 delicate, pink. Semilancet-shaped acute sepals converging over 

 the column and narrow petals and exceeding them. Spur very 

 short. The two ascending fleshy lobes of stig. and the flat 

 broad plate between them are characteristic of the plant. 

 Open limestone pastures. Clare, Galway, Mayo. P. IV. V. I 



