OKCHIDACE^. 91 



Among bushes and in meadows in chalky soil. Very rare, and nearly 

 extinct, though it still occasionally occurs about Darenth Wood near 

 Dartford, Kent, where it has been recently found by Mr. Wollaston of 

 Eltham ; on the Downs, near Canterbury, Mr. George Oxenden saw it 

 in 1859, but I believe it has now nearly or entirely disappeared from 

 'that station. In June 1847, the Eev. E. M. Blomfield found a sino^le 

 ■ specimen in the \'illage of Great Glemham, near Saxmuudham, Suflfolk. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



Rootknobs from the size of a filbert to that of a walnut. Stem 15 

 inches to 3 feet high. Radical leaves 3 to 6 inches long, bearino- 

 considerable resemblance to those of Habenaria chlorantha; upper 

 leaves narrower, sheathing the stem. Flowers numerous, in a rather 

 lax spike, each flo\ver with a bract at the base longer than the ovary. 

 Upper perianth segments about -j^ inch long; labellum, measuring to 

 the end of the middle lobe, 1^ inch or more, the lateral lobes not above 

 i inch; spur about ^ inch long. 



I am indebted to Mr. G. Worthington Smith for a fresh specimen 

 of this plant, obtained by Mr. Wollaston in the neighbourhood of 

 Dartford. 



Lizard Orchis. 



French, Orchis barbe de houc. German, Bocks Biemenztmge. 



Sub-Genus II.—ANACAMPTIS. 



Labellum with the middle lobe not undulated, erect and not coiled 

 in aestivation ; spur very long. Pollen-masses attached to a common 

 gland contained in a pouch. 



SPECIES n.— ORCHIS PYRAMIDALIS. Linn. 



Plate MCCCCXLIX. 



ReicJi. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. Xm. Tab. CCCLXI. 



Billot, Fl. GaU. et Germ. No. 3242. 



Anacamptis pyramidalis, Elch. Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 793. Fries, 



Snmm. Veg. Scand. p. Gl. Harlm. Skand. Fl. ed. ix. p. 190. Parlat. Fl. Ital. 



Vol. m. p. 451. Crep. Man. Fl. Belg. ed. ii. p. 291. Lindl. Syn. Brit. Fl. 



p. 261. 

 Aceras pyramidaUs, Reich, fl. 1. c. p. 6. Gren. & Golr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. III. p. 283. 



Rootknobs undivided, subglobular or ovate-subglobular. Leaves 

 oblong-strapshaped, acute. Flowers in a dense spike, at first pyramidal, 

 afterwards ovoid. Bracts about as long as the ovary of the expanded 

 flowers, scarious, coloured, 1- to 3-ribbed. Lateral sepals spreading, 



