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another Algerian Orchid of the O. latifolia group, namely O. Durandii, 
Boiss. et Reut., and we have evidence of introductions from that country. 
Mr. G. S. Lawson, in 1860, spoke of picking up some Orchises in Algeria, 
and among them O. latifolia (Trans. Edinb. Bot. Soc., vi. p. 274). In July, 
1873, Mr. George Maw sent a plant to Kew for name that he had brought 
from Tangier. Mr. Baker thought it was a large variety of O. latifolia, 
near the Madeiran O. foliosa. Mr. Maw replied that he had flowered O. 
foliosa from a neighbouring country and it was certainly distinct, also an 
O. foliosa of unknown origin from a friend. The latter was probably the 
true Madeiran plant, and as the Tangier plant is O. Durandii, the proba- 
bility is that the third was O. elata. Again, in June, 1880, an Orchis was 
received from Glasnevin with the record, ‘‘ Algeria, Prof. Percival Wright.” 
Mr. Baker called it O. Munbyana, B. & R., but it has the laxer spike and 
longer bracts of O. Durandii. Both, however, are Algerian, and there is 
at least the possibility that both may have been collected. Camus calls the 
latter O. incarnata var Durandii. The fact is, the O. latifolia group contains 
a number of distinct topographical forms, whose relations to each are not 
yet clear, and there is a further complication by hybridisation when these 
forms happen to group intermixed, sometimes even when planted together 
in gardens, as in the case of O. folioso-maculata.—R. A. ROLFE. 
NaTivE OrcuHips 1n Kent.— Recent discoveries in Kent serve to 
recall an interesting note by Mr. G. C. Oxenden on its native Orchids 
(Trans. Edinb. Bot. Soc., vi. p. 432). I have seen, he remarks, some very 
fine sights this May and June—viz., vast tracts of steep picturesque Grass 
hills extending for some miles, and throughout their whole length decked 
and garnished with one or the other of the following plants :—Ophrys 
aranifera and muscifera, Orchis ustulata, a lovely Orchid, and Habenaria 
bifolia—all this vast range of hill slopes to the south and south-west. The 
east side of the same range isall forest ground, and it affords in abundance 
every variety of Orchis fusca, froma. dull white to a very deep 
mulberry colour, and in size over twenty inches. . Near Broome Park, 
Canterbury, grows the monarch Orchid, Orchis hircina, the Lizard Orchid ; 
and within fifty yards of my house I have one growing, which at this 
moment (25th June, 1860) is 294 inches high, and with 50 “‘ Lizards”’ upon 
it. July will afford me very fine specimens of Ophrys arachnites, and if 
you have never seen the wonderful varieties of this Orchid, they will 
astonish you. Some of the varieties of the Bee Orchis are also exceedingly 
curious. In August we get Herminium monorchis in abundance, very 
minute, very fragrant, and under the microscope the most beautiful object 
imaginable. In July and August we have Epipactis latifolia and E. 
_ purpurata in tolerable abundance. 
