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ORCHIS LATIFOLIO-MACULATA, Towns. (Fl. Hampsh., p. 341).—This 
hybrid was described by Townsend, in 1883, as found in meadows near the 
Lily Wood, Shirril Heath, Hampshire. Three years later it was recorded 
from Headington Wick Bog, Oxfordshire (Druce, Fl. Oxf., p. 294), and in 
1889 it was found in a rough pasture field at Egg Buckland, near 
Plymouth, by R. T. Archer Briggs (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, ii. p. 10; 
Briggs in Journ. Bot., 1889, p. 244), together with the parents. Since then 
it has been found in many other localities (O.R., xxi. pp. 201, 202 ; xxvi. p. 
164), and it may be looked for wherever the two parents grow together. It 
has been identified with O. Braunii, Halacsy, but this requires confirmation, 
because the Continental O. latifolia, otherwise O. majalis, Rchb., often has 
spotted leaves, and more than a single hybrid may have been included 
under the name. A further complication is pointed out below. 
OrcHIS ASCHERSONIANA, Hausskn. (latifolia X incarnata.—Recorded 
from near Winchester, by Ullmann (Winch. Coll. Nat. Hist. Soc., 1911-13, 
p. 11), and from West Drayton, Middlesex (Rolfe in O.R., xxvi. p. 162). It 
probably occurs elsewhere, and earlier records may be found when the 
confusion in the history of the parent species is cleared up. . For example, 
Sculley, in 1916, remarked (F/. Kerry, p. 279), that when O. latifolia and O. 
incarnata grow together, as they sometimes do abundantly, intermediate 
forms have been gathered, which could not be definitely referred to either, 
and a hybrid origin had been suggested. 
OxcHIS AMBIGUA, Kerner (incarnata xX maculata).—Recorded as O, 
maculata X incarnata, from Compton, and near Winchester, Hampshire, by 
Mr. D. G. Lowndes (Winch. Coll. Nat. Hist. Soc., 1911-13, p.9; 1915-17, p. 
13, t. 17), and afterwards (O.R., xxvi. p. 164) connected with the con- 
tinental plant, now known from Germany, France and Switzerland. We 
also believe that the plant figured as O. latifolia X maculata (Proc. Bournem. 
Nat. Sc. Soc., iii. p. 41, t. 1; O. Braunii, O.R., Xxlil. pp. 367, 368, fig. 45) 
belongs here, for during a recent visit to Bournemouth, Mr. Sherring 
kindly presented the original specimen to the writer, and the leaves are 
narrow, with the strict habit of O. incarnata, but heavily blotched, and these 
characters, with the line-like markings on the lip, would indicate O. 
incarnata and O. maculata as the parents. The inflorescence only is shown 
in the figure. 
Some additional hybrids have been recorded in this group, but we regard 
them, to say the least, as doubtful. They are the results of, (1), splitting O. 
pretermissa from O. latifolia; ‘(2), splitting O. ericetorum from QO, 
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