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Kew for identification. The plant itself was left. There are several old 
country records, and among them Dartford, in West Kent, from which 
source a specimen is preserved in the Borrer Herbarium at Kew. It isa 
chalk-loving plant, and is common in some localities on the Continent, 
though apparently always rare in Britain. A painting has been made, and 
the flowers are being preserved. It may be added that the plant figured as 
O. militaris in Smith’s English Botany, t. 1873, from a specimen gathered 
near Dartford, by Mr. Peete, F.L.S., is really O. Simia, which can always 
be distinguished by its narrow, curved, dark purple lobes of the lip. In O. 
militaris the lip is flatter, and the front pair of lobes distinctly dilated 
upwards. These two species and the allied O. purpurea were confused in 
some of the early records. Somewhat later two specimens of the rare 
Lizard Orchis, Orchis hircina, weré found in the same locality, making the 
twelfth species of Orchid found in the district,—R.A-R. 
OpHrys PHILIPPEI, Gren.—A very interesting natural hybrid Ophrys 
has been sent to Kew for determination by Dr. Joseph Poucel, Marceille, 
France. It was found by him asa single example, in a wood of pines and 
oaks, in the Department of Var, and is suggested as a probable natural 
hybrid, with O. Scolopax as one of the parénts. The other we. believe to 
have been O. aranifera, for there are marked resemblances to both, and 
thus we refer it to the plant described in 1859 as O. Philippei; Gren. (Rech. 
Orch. Toulon, p. 11), which was found: in the environs of Toulon by 
Philippe. Of this Camus remarks that it resembles O. Scolopax rather than 
O. aranifera, while one that he himself describes as ‘O..Nouletii (Journ. de 
Bot., vi. p. 158) issaid to be rather nearer O. aranifera in colour. The 
latter was based on a specimen gathered at Le Vernet, rives de la Ariége, by 
Noulet, and from the identical parentage we must regard it as a form of the 
earlier hybrid. A black and white figure of O. Nouletii is given by Camus 
(Mon. Orch. Eur., p. 303, t. 25, fig. 866), and from it the plant now sent 
differs in having rounder side lobes to the lip. It is about a foot high, and 
bears six flowers. The sepals are white with a green mid-nerve, as described 
by Grenier, and the petals light green, like those of O- aranifera in shape, 
and hairy. The lip is longer than the sepals, with a pair of rounded, hairy 
side lobes about the middle, and the ground colour is green, closely marbled, 
or almost reticulated with dusky brown on the disc, and with a darker brown 
margin. The greater part of the front is dark brown, with a little green 
marbling in the centre, and a light green apex. We cannot see any other 
combination of species that would produce this plant, and only two other 
hybrids of O. Scolopax are known, thpse with O. apifera and with O. 
fuciflora, and both are markedly different. The discovery is interesting, 
_ and we had not previously seen the plant.—R.A.R. 
