73. ORCHIDACE^. 435 



North limit in York, Northampton, Cambridge. 



Estimate of provinces 5. Estimate of counties 10. 



Latitude 50 — 54. Germanic type of distribution. 



Agrarian region. Inferagrarian — Midagrarian zones. 



Descends to the coast level, in Thames or Channel. 



Ascends to 100 yards, less or more, in same provinces. 



Range of mean annual temperature 51 — 48. 



Native. Pascual, &c. A scarce species ; which has 

 not been quite satisfactorily shown to grow in any province 

 beyond those of the Channel, Thames, and Ouse. It has 

 long been recorded as found in the neighbourhood of York ; 

 but the old records continue to be repeated, without the 

 support of any additional authority which can be safely 

 relied upon. In Turner and Dillwyn's Botanist's Guide, 

 it is included in both the Lincolnshire and Northampton- 

 shire lists, on faith of the same habitat, " a mile fi-om Bar- 

 neck." In the Flora of Shropshire it is admitted on the 

 authority of Mr. H. Spare, who does not appear to have 

 shown any specimen of it to the author of the Flora, and 

 whose name is appended as the authority for some other 

 much-to-be-suspected species in that county. In the Sup- 

 plement to the Flora Bathoniensis, the name of a late Mr. 

 J. Jelly is cited as the authority for O. aranifera, on " diy 

 hills above Winsley." In this, as in various other instances, 

 it is to be regretted that the author of the Bath Flora, re- 

 lating only to a small space of country, should not himself 

 have done more towards verifying or correcting the locali- 

 ties which he published on indifferent authority and for 

 unlikely plants. Not a few errors are probably in print re- 

 specting the jjlants of Bath and Bristol. O. fucifera occurs 

 in Kent ; but it would seem to be merely a variety of O. 

 aranifera. 



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