73. ORCHIDACE^. 423 



1046. Orchis mascula, Linn. 



Area general. 



South limit iu Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Kent. 



North limit in Shetland, Orkney, ? 



Estimate of provinces 18. Estimate of counties 80. 



Latitude 50 — 6 1 . British type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Supcragrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in the Peninsula. 



Ascends to 500 or 600 yards, in the Lake province. 



Range of mean annual temperature 52 — 43. 



Native. Pratal. Not unlikely to exist in every county, 

 although the present state of our information may not war- 

 rant the highest estimate. This species is not enumerated 

 in Balfour and Babington's Ust of plants observed in the 

 Hebrides. Neither does it occur in Professor Balfour's 

 catalogue of species seen in Islay and Cantire. And 1 

 have no note of ever meeting with it myself in the High- 

 land counties. But it usually appears in lists made by re- 

 sident botanists, who see the earher plants, equally as those 

 later flowering species which are more likely to come un- 

 der the observation of tourists. Hence, the absence of any 

 record of this species for the counties of Perth, Argyle, 

 West Inverness, Sutherland, Caithness, and Hebrides, in 

 my collected lists, may be attributed to the early flowering 

 of the plant, before the season of tourist-botanists. 



1047. Orchis laxiflora, Lam. 



Sarnian. Occurs in " wet meadows and bogs in Jersey 

 and Guernsey " (Bab. ISIan.) ; but does not ajipcar to have 

 been certainly found in any jiart of England. 



