272 OECHIDACEJ!. 



Dry fields and banks ; rather rare. P. September. 

 I. Neighbourhood of Uxbridge ; Lightf. MSB. Pinner Hill, Mrs. Tooke ; 

 Melv. 76. 



III. In the field next Thistleworth as you go from Branford (= Brentford) 



to her Majesties house at Richmond ; Gcr. 168. 



IV. Plentifully in a field adjoining to our garden at Mill Hill ; in another 



field at Highwood Hill, abundantly ; Michael CoUinson MSS. 



V. Beside Syon ; Turn. Names. Hanwell Heath near Ealing, Dr. Good- 



enough ; Ciirt. F. L. 

 VI. At Enfield, on the Chase, in a dry ditch ; Boody MSS. On Enfield 

 Chase, near the town ; MS. note (Alchortie's) quoted in Phyt. iii. 169 

 and Mart. A2}p. P. C. 65. 

 VII. [In the field by Islington where there is a bouling place under a few 

 old shrubby okes ; upon a common heath by a village called Stepney, 

 Master John Coles ; Ger. 168.] 

 First record : Turner, 1548 ; also first as a British plant. 



LISTERA, B. Br. 



657. £• ovata, 7?. Br. Tway-hlade. 



Ophris hi/olia (Ger.). BifoUum, Lob. (Johns.). Bifoliumsylvestre vulgar e, 



Park., (Blackst.). Ophrys ovata (Ciu-t.). 

 Cyb. Br. ii. 416 ; iii. 610. Curt. F. L. f. 3. 

 Moist woods and copses ; rather rare. P. May, June. 

 I. In Whiteheath Wood and Scarlet Spring, and in meadows near the 

 river, Harefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 10. Copse near Harefield towards 

 Uxbridge ; Cole. Copse near Pinner Wood. Euislip. 

 III. South End of Harrow Grove ; Melv. 75. 



IV. Hampsteede Wood; Ger. 326. Hampstead Heath; Johns. Enum. 

 Meadows opp. Swan Inn, near Hendon ; Coop. Supp. 11. Bentley 

 Priory Woods ; Melv. 75. Bishop's Wood. Scratch Wood. 



VI. In the fields by Highgate ; Ger. 326. The Alders Wood, Whetstone. 

 First record : Gerarde, 1697 ; also first as a British plant. 



NEOTTIA, Linn. 



658. M". Widus-avis, Rich. BirdJs-nest. 

 Orchis abortiva fusca, C. B. P. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. ii. 414; iii. 510. Syme E. B. ix. f. 1478. 

 Parasitical on beech and other trees ; very rare. P.? May. 

 I. In Whiteheath Wood on Harefield Common, but very rarely, 1735; 

 Blackst. Fasc. 67. 

 III. Harrow Grove, 1868 ; Farrar. 



IV. On a common laurel in the grounds of Stanmore Cottage, about 1830 ; 

 Varcnne. 

 First record: Blackstone, 1737. Occurs in Oxhey Wood, Herts; Farrar. 

 Just beyond our bounds. 



