126 PETALOIDE^E. 



stone pastures. A beautiful little Orchis, from -4 to 6 inches 

 high. Knobs of the roots entire. Leaves lanceolate, acute. 

 Flowers in a dense, oblong, terminal spike, small and numerous ; 

 lip of the corolla white, with raised purple spots, 3-partite, with 

 linear-oblong lobes. Helmet dark reddish-purple. Spur one-third 

 the length of the germen. Daddyhole Plain (nearly extinct). 

 Babbicombe Down. Berry Head. (E. B. t. 18 : too dingy.) 

 P. vi. 



4. O. maculata (spotted palmate 0.) Wet pastures, woods, 

 and heaths. Root-knobs 2, palmate. Stem about a foot high. 

 Lower leaves blunt, upper linear-lanceolate, all usually spotted 

 with purple. Flowers white or light purple, with darker purple 

 streaks ; lip flat, deeply 3-lobed, middle lobe longer and narrower 

 than the lateral ones ; spur shorter than the germen, bracts as 

 long as or exceeding it. Orchard by the Babbicombe road. 

 Wood on the Newton road. Cockington. Osier-beds at Paignton. 

 Wet wood at Lindridge. Forde bog. (E. B. t. 632.) P. y. vi. 



5. O. latifolia (marsh 0.) In marshes and damp meadows. 

 Root-knobs 2, palmate. Stem from 12 to 18 inches high, hol- 

 low. Leaves large and lanceolate, spreading. Flowers in a dense 

 spike ; bracts long, lower ones exceeding the flowers ; spur 

 snorter than the germen ; lip indistinctly 3-lobed, its sides re- 

 flexed and wavy ; flowers varying in colour from pale pink to 

 purple ; the lip spotted and streaked with purple lines. Paignton 

 osier-beds. Meadows at Shiphay. Forde bog. Banks of the 

 Dart, near Totness, etc. (E. B. t. 2308.) P. vi. 



6. O. pyramidalis (pyramidal O.) In pastures on a lime- 

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

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, very acute. Flower-spike pyramidal or 

 cylindrical ; flowers bright reddish -purple, sometimes white ; lip 

 equally 3-lobed ; spur thread-like, longer than the germen. Dad- 

 dyhole Plain. Babbicombe Down. G-oodrington. Kerswell 

 Down. Chudleigh Woods. (E. B. 1. 110.) P. vn. 



HABENARIA. HABENARIA, BUTTERFLY 

 ORCHIS. 



1. H. bifolia (lesser Butterfly -Orchis.) In moist thickets, 

 meadows, and marshes. Root-knobs tapering, undivided. Stem 

 about 1 foot high. Root leaves 2, large, oblong or elliptical ; 

 narrow and bract-like. Flowers white, in a loose spike ; spur 

 slender, twice as long as the germen ; lip linear, entire. Fir 

 wood on the Braddons Hill (extinct). Cockington lanes. 

 Wood on the Newton road. Chudleigh. (E. B. S. 2806.) P. 



