NOTES ON SHROPSHIRE PLANTS. 147 
Elodea canadensis, Rich. Abundant in the Shropshire Union 
Canal, the Ellesmere Meres, and pools near Berrington, Acton 
urnell, Leighton, Eaton Constantine, and Wroxeter. Duri g 
= last few years this plant has spread most remarkably through 
many parts of Shropshire; fragment of it must, I think, be tran- 
sported by wildfowl, as it often occurs in Beongey pools entirely fed 
by springs, and unconnected with any stre 
Orchis pyramidalis, L. Very Sarnenh: ison Much Wenlock, 
Buildwas, and the Arkoll Hill. 
0. ‘Moric. L. Frequent near nines, Leighton, Eaton Con- 
stantine, Wroxeter, Harley, and 
O. incarnata, L. In the summer aN: 1880 Mr. W. — and I 
found this Orehis i in an open wood near rer Mer 
Gymnadenia conopsea, R. Br. Near Spout Lane, Telehiton, and 
in Farley Dingle. Mr. R. M. Banpeniton has also gathered it 
near Church Preen. 
Habenaria viridis, R. Br. Fields at Longwood; Eaton Con- 
stantine ; and Spout Lane, Leighton 
H. chlor antha, Bab. Woods near Muc h Wenlock, Farley, 
lea Leighton, the Arkoll Hill, Cound, Craven Ams, and 
hi 
Ophrys npileré: Huds. Fields round Much Wenlock, in Farley 
Dingls (where it grows in open places in woods), and between 
ores and Little Wenlock. 
ptranthes autumnalis, Rich. Fields on Charlton Hill; near 
Lite Wenlock, and at the base of Tentree 
Listera ovata, R. Br. Damp woods and in fields about the base 
of the Wrekin, and round the Arkoll Hill; near Little bie — 
Buildwas, Much Wenlock, Eaton Constantine, and Ellesm 
Epipactis latifolia, All. Woods near the Wrekin, Candies, 
Bomere, Sundorne, and Ludlow 
Ze 
Cound, ‘and on Cou we Mote 
N. poeticus, L. Quite naturalised in a field near Cound Lane, 
where it has grown for forty years at lea 
Siac at ited L. Woods near Cound, Leighton, and Cole- 
mere Mer 
alg communis, L. Hedges very frequent. 
Paris trl lia, L. Woods in Sgr) Dingle, wet boggy wood 
ns, 8m. A variety with white flowers is frequent in 
Acton Bukrell i Park, and about the Wrekin. 
Allium vineale, L. Near Acton Pigott. The ire compactum 
grows in two places near Berrin gton, and near Leig 
i A, -oeraceun, L. By the road leading from ato! to Cound 
