30 Peel: The Orchids of the Upper Hodder Valley. 
More slender, taller, and less stiff than the preceding ; 
stem solid, sometimes brown below the spike; spike up 
to three inches; bracts less conspicuous and _ shorter ; 
flowers the colour of No. 2 ; sepals spreading ; lip 3, lobed 
hardly or not at all compressed ; leaves green, unspotted, 
tapering, pointed, sheathing, hardly concave, flat at tips, 
waved ; in some reaching the base of the spike, in others 
shorter ; varying with slightly spotted leaves. {I think 
so: there can of course only be crossing between cheek-by- 
jowl growths; and as there is no ew latifolia it must be 
with one of the two—Gymnadenia is an orchis—which 
there is on the site.—F.A.L.] 
No Gymnadenia was present in either locality when the 
above-named specimens were gathered in July, 1912. 
(NoTE.—In answer to a question, ‘ Why Orchis incarnata 
B. & H. should flower so late and (possibly) hybridise with 
O. maculata?’ the only answer must be the accident of site 
and elevation and all-powerful opportunity. But the relations 
of date don’t hold good for all England even. In the 1862 
Edition of Babington’s Manual, the Cambridge Professor 
wrote of incarnata as ‘mostly quite past flowering when 
latifolia is in perfection in the middle of June.’ But what true 
broad-leaved majalis Wats. we have, on the limestone slopes 
and terraces of Teesdale, etc., is climatically compelled to defer 
its floriation well into June, at least in my experience, but it 
is sporadically rare and, not dominant, in suitable mires and 
slacks, as is wncarnata.—F.A.L.| 
( ORCHIS MACULATA) Very common, growing in dry places, 
|: in bogs and in woods. 
Sometimes the ground colour is almost 
pure white. 
[O. vecurva Nyman is O. maculata L. without its O. 
praecox Webster (which is the earlier name for O. erice- 
torum). O. recurva has a sub-equal tri-dentate lip; the 
germen twists in maturation of individual flower until the 
lip stands uppermost ; leaves maculate infolding, sinu- 
ously recurving.—F.A.L.] 
(ORCHIS MACULATA\ Uncommon. Ashnott bog, some little 
4 | distance from hybrid No. 3. A 
{O. ERICETORUM. | few plants mid. July, 1912, ail in 
( a more advanced stage of floria- 
tion than O. recurva, O. incarnata, 
or hybrid No. 3. 
[O. ericetorum Linton (praecox Webster) the flowers are 
paler, often white; lip emarginately rounded with faint 
anastomosing lines. Both races or forms of the old ag- 
gregate O. maculata Linn. will hybridise with G. conopsea 
as wellas O. incarnata. The products mostly want names 
lo. RECURVA. 
Naturalist, 
