434 73. ORCHIDACE^. 



1060, b. Ophrys arachnites, Rich. 



Area [* 2] 3 [4]. 



South limit in Kent, Surrey. 



North limit in the same counties. 



Estimate of provinces 1. Estimate of counties 2, 



Latitude 51 — 52. Local (Germ.) type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian zone. 



Descends to the coast level, or nearly so. 



Ascends to 100 yards, more or less. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 49. 



Native. Pascual. Either overlooked as a fonn of O. 

 apifera, or very local in England. It grows in Kent and 

 Surrey, on the report of the Rev. G. E. Smith, by whom it 

 was first distinguished from O. apifera in England. In 

 Salter's Botany of Poole, it is marked as occumng within 

 30, but not within 16 miles of that town. This habitat 

 might be within either Dorset or Hants, and will require 

 some more direct and individual authority, or more exact 

 specification, before it can be received as a cei-tain one. In 

 the New Botanist's Guide, a reference is given to English 

 Flora, as an authority for the occurrence of this plant near 

 Bury, in Suffolk ; but there seems to be some eiTor either 

 in printing the wrong specific name, or in giving the wrong 

 authority. Very doubtM whether O. arachnites is truly a 

 distinct species. 



1061 . Ophrys aranifera, Hiids. ^ ^'^- ^^^ /■ SV^ 

 1061, b. Ophrys FUCiFERA, Sm. 



Areajl]2 3 4 [5 * * 8] * 10. 



South limit in Sussex, Kent. ^(mU' 



