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leaving a ng per cent. to be shared between ies remaining 
sixty-five ord 
The paitiot ‘ideas, according to which the flora of Australia, 
anything exotic which may be able to reach its shores, were then 
criticized. hile immigration has doubtless taken place, it was 
held that the extent of it has — wees over-estimated, and a 
natural explanation was caiinict red to iven for such im- 
mee in opposition to the senenlialt Pat 3 of exotic ‘‘ pre- 
domin: 
The « " * Primitive bs Floras ’’ were regarded as mixed xero- 
philous and hygrophilous ones. In Europe changes of ine 
caused elimination of the xerophilous element ; whereas in Eastern 
Australia, until the period of caper set in, the climate pre- 
vailing in Europe during Hocene, Oligocene, and Miocene times 
met with during his jou mag per, ‘‘ The Camel- eee of 
Western Australia,” published in ee je Sete for 1897, pp. 161-172. 
SHORT NOTES. 
RCHIS CRUENTA IN CumMBERLAND.— When I was staying in Cum 
berland last June and July, I found a species of Orchis plontitul #1 in 
two or three bogs on the fells—about 1000 feet above sea level— 
between Borrowdale and Wetendlath. I thought the species was 
cruenta, Mahl. in Oeder Fl, Dan. t t. 876; Retz Pr 
ed. 2, p. 205; O. latifolia var. cruenta, Lindl. ae er Sp. Orch. p. 
260: and adds, *¢ Rehb. f. (FL. Germ. x 53) makes it a form 
of O. incarnata, a plant much énsfileia: with O. latifolia in books, 
if indeed both are not forms of one species. It is, however, an 
interesting discovery, as the plant is not previously recorded from 
Britain. Nyman gives its habitat as ‘‘ Norv. bor. centr., Suec. 
bor., Finn.” I have pla = Ssoriespig in the British Museum and 
the Kew Herbaria. aii t Gos ; 
LLARIA wou This name sania’ in the Index Kewensis eS 
in ‘the on the authority of Cyrilli (Char. Comm. 
36 (1784) ). He was undoubtedly the first to plas the _ in 
