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SEEDS OF THE MARSH ORCHIDS, 
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Macurata: 1. maculata L.; 2. elodes Griseb (evicet Linton) ; 3. O’Kellyi D uce. 
Latiroti®: 4. pretermissa Druce; 5. incarnats L ; 6, purpurella Steph. p and f. 
and all forms of maculata are entirely absent from the district. It nearly 
always has spotted leaves—careful search the first year I found it only 
revealed two specimens with unspotted leaves—the spots transversely oval, 
ringed, or small and circular, dark or faint, dense or sparse, sometimes. 
confined to the tips of the leaves, and the flowers varying from dark violet- 
red to pale lilac. Similar variations occur in the spotted British marsh 
Orchids. Later I saw O. Jatifolia in great quantity at Thorenc, above 
Grasse, 3,600 feet above the sea. Here O. maculata L. was present, and 
beautiful hybrids occurred between the two species, but the great majority 
of O. latifulia was of pure blood. Next year I saw latifolia in abundance in 
the plains around Chambéry, in Savoie. It appeared to be identical with 
the Vence plant. Curiously enough O. maculata was absent from the plains, 
though frequent (about 2,000 feet up) on the mountains on either side, where 
the hybrid O. Braunii also occurred. One sometimes sees it suggested that 
the British spotted-leaved marsh Orchids are O. Braunii—hybrids between 
O. pretermissa and maculata, but this is incorrect, O. Brauni being the 
spotted-leaved O. latifolia L. crossed with maculata. Again at Chamonix, 
near the foot of the Col de Balme, I saw troops of latifolia on the marshy 
slopes. Here the flowers were brilliant dark violet-red, the colours, as with 
so many Alpine flowers, being particularly bright. The plants were not 
distinguishable, except in depth of colour, from those at Vence. Mdile. 
Camus informed me that in the environs of Paris, where Jatzfolia is rather 
