130 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (Jun, 1918, 
much elongated leaves, the latter character not well shown in the photograph 
from which the block was prepared. The figure represents the plant 
certificated, which formed an exceedingly graceful object. It has since 
flowered at Kew, this being the source from which the Botanical Magazin 
plate was prepared. It is one of several species which form a very natural 
group.—R.A.R. 
ORCHIS LATIFOLIA GLASNEVIN VAR.—A clump of this exceptionally 
brilliant variety is now making a fine show at Kew, and will continue for 
the greater part of June. It is about twice the size of the common marsh — 
Orchis, and the colour is deep rose-purple, of so deep a shade as to nearly 
cbliterate the usual purple spotting. The variety has long been known, 
and is the one which received an Award of Merit from the R.H. S. in June, — 
1895, when a plant of the type also received a Botanical Certificate (0. R., 
lil. p. 252). We also saw it at Glasnevin in July, 1903, and noted it asa 
noble green form, about three feet high, with wholly green leaves and 
€normous spikes of flowers (O.R., xi. p- 240). At that time we were 
uncertain as to its history, but we have now found what evidently refers to 
the same thing. A note from the Irish Farmers’ Gazette is cited in the 
Garden (1876, ii. P- 75), as follows :— This, one of the most beautiful of on 
native Orchids, shows a marked liability to diverge into very charming 
varieties. One of the most noteworthy of these, or we should, perhaps, say 
the most so of any of them, is the very distinct and striking variety found by 
Dr. Moore some dozen years since in a meadow at the base of the Dublin 
mountains. This is a robust form, growing to a height of from 18in. to aft, 
The raceme of flowers nearly equals that of the Madeiran Orchis foliosa. 
and has the advantage of it in respect of colour, that of the Irish plant 
being of an intense rosy purple. This variety flowers a fortnight earlier ; 
than the typical form. For this reason Dr. Moore, by way of distinguishing 
it, aptly gave it the name of O. latifolia pracox. Another remarkable trae 
in the character of our plant is its free tendency to seed, the readiness with 
which the seed germinates, and the precocity of the seedlings growing bo a 
flowering plants. Only three roots were transferred from the original 
habitat to Glasnevin, and 
artificial bog there. 
flower stems, forming during 
» but many of them elsewhere in the garden, ” . 
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hat makes this more singular is, that a similar tendency : 
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