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posite ovate leaves. Flowers in a long lax spike, crowning the 

 naked stem, small and greenish ; lip long and 2-cleft. Wood by 

 the Newton road. Paignton osier-beds. Berry Pomeroy wood. 

 Ophrys, Linn. (E. B. t. 1548.) P. v. VI. 



2. Ii. Nidus-avis (common Bird's-nest.) In moist woods 

 and thickets. Root of numerous, crowded, fleshy, and bulbous 

 fibres ; stem a foot or more high, clothed with sheathing scales, 

 and bearing no leaves. Flowers of a dusky brown, in a terminal 

 spike ; lip oblong, with 2 spreading lobes. Whole plant of a 

 dingy reddish-brown, having, at first sight, much the appearance 

 of an Orobanche. Berry Pomeroy woods. Ugbrooke Park. 

 Ophrys, Linn. Neottia, Bab. (E.*B. t. 48.) P.? vi. 



NEOTTIA. LADY'S-TRESSES. 



N. spiralis (fragrant Lady's -Tresses.) On dry hilly pas- 

 tures. Root with 2 to 4 oblong root-knobs. Leaves radical and 

 spreading, oblong or broadly ovate ; stem from 4 to 6 inches 

 high, with short sheathing bracts. Flowers in a spiral terminal 

 spike, greenish-white, almond-scented. Park Hill, near the stone 

 seat. Daddy-hole Plain. Babbicombe Down. Spiranthes au- 

 tumnalis, Bab. and Benth. (E. B. t. 541.) P. YIII.-IX. 



ORCHIS. ORCHIS. 



1. O. Morio (green-winged meadow Orchis.) In pastures 

 and meadows. Root-knobs 2, undivided. Stem from 6 to 8 or 

 9 inches high; leaves almost radical, lanceolate. Flowers few, 

 in a loose spike, purple ; bracts slender and tinged with pink ; 

 outer sepals purplish, arching over the petals ; lip 3-lobed, pale 

 in the middle, with purplish spots ; spur blunt, not quite so long 

 as the seed-vessel. Daddyhole Plain. Ilsham Down. Warberry 

 Hill. (E.B. t. 2059.) P. v. vi. 



2. O. mascula (early purple O) In woods and pastures. 

 Root-knobs 2, undivided. Stem a foot or more high. Leaves 

 chiefly radical, long-lanceolate, generally more or less spotted 

 with purple ; flowers in a loose spike, numerous and showy, ge- 

 nerally purple, but sometimes flesh-coloured or white, bracts 

 coloured, the 2 outer sepals turned upwards and converging ; lip 

 of the corolla 3-lobed, the middle lobe largest and notched ; spur 

 ascending, longer than the germen. Daddyhole Plain. Cliff 

 walks at Meadfoot, and beyond Hope's Nose. Bradley woods, 

 etc. (E. B. t. 631.) P. T. 



3. O. ustulata (dwarf dark-winged 0.) On dry, hilly, lime- 



