480 ORCHiDACE^. [Habenaria. 



and obtuse, from 2 to 4 or 5 inches in length, much crowded or dense (Graves and 

 Hooker, Fl. Lond. iv.), at other times lax or with comparatively few and distant 

 flowers (E. B. i. 1. 1 0). Bracts lanceolate, taper-pointed, green (scarcely coloured), 

 about as long as the germen, bluntly keeled. Sepals ovato-oblong, very obtuse, 

 obscurely 3- (or 6?-) nerved, their margins reflexed, the superior one nearly erect, 

 about as long as the petals, the two inferior or lateral deflexed and spreading. 

 Petals coloured uniformly like the sepals, without spots or markings of any kind, 

 the two superior broad, concave and connivent over the anther, shorter than the 

 lateral sepals, of an irregularly rounded form, their margins entire or slightly 

 crenate only; lip ro\indish, broader than long, nearly plane, somewhat plicate, in 

 3 rather shallow rounded lobes of equal length, the middle one of which is quite 

 entire, the two lateral variously notched along their anterior margin ; spur very 

 slender, filiform, subulate, twice as long as the germen or even more, nearly cylin- 

 drical, without a keel, scarcely pointed, curved inwards for the most part or nearly 

 straight. Column very short, forming a hood over the anther, the cells of which 

 are parallel, perforated at the base (not saccate). Pollen-masses pear-shaped, yel- 

 lowish or greenish, composed of rather few large angular grains, stalks golden 

 yellow, their glands pellucid, flat and narrow-oblong, naked (not included in a 

 sac or pouch) and approximate, closing the bottom of the cells. Germen purplish, 

 oblong, twisted, suddenly contracted and bending forward at the summit. Stigma 

 concave, with a short rounded lobe on each side, forming its anterior margin, be- 

 tween which and the anther-cells is a pair of shining pellucid glands (two abortive 

 anthers ?). 



In general appearance this species resembles Orchis latifolia and O. maculata, 

 but the delicate fragrance of its blossoms, like that of the Clove Pink, will at once 

 distinguish it. Mr. G. E. Smith, who first noticed it in Colwell bay, observes 

 that the plants there have a mixed odour of the Hyacinth with that more peculiar 

 to their kind. The plant at Colwell is very large, the spikes very dense, and I 

 think comes later into flower than that at Ventnor, of which the few living speci- 

 mens I have as yet seen have extremely narrow leaves and lax spikes of flowers, 

 approaching nearer in this respect to the figure in E. Botany. Perhaps the for- 

 mer may he G. densijlora of Dietrich, Fl. March, p. 164, as it agrees with my 

 dried specimens, and in the later period of flowering, viz.^ July and August. 



III. Habenaria, R. Br. Habenaria. 



" Lip spurred. Anther-cells separated, diverging at the base. 

 Glands of the stalks of the pollen-masses naked, distant." — 

 Br. Fl. 



1. H. viridis, R. Br. Green Habenaria. Frog Orchis. " Spur 

 very short 2-lobed, lip linear bifid with an intermediate tooth, 

 anther-cells without any process between their bases, bracteas 

 much longer the flowers, tubers palmate." — Br. Fl. p. 423. 

 Satyrium, L. : E. B. t. 94. 



In damp meadows and pastures, as well as in dry hilly and stony or gravelly 

 places ; very rare with us. JF7. June, July. 2^. 



W. Med. — In a field at the end of the fir- plantation by Long lane, near New- 

 port, R. Godman Kirhpatnck, Esq., June, 1841! The only specimen (a very 

 fine one) found by Mr. Kirkpatrick was kindly presented to me by his sister. Miss 

 Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, a few days after it was gathered. I have also received, 

 through the kindness of the Rev. James Penfold, a second specimen, gathered in 

 June of the same year, by Miss Woodroofe, near the "high summerhouse" at 

 Swainston. 



2. H. chlorantha, Bab. Great Butterfly Orchis. Spur twice 

 as long as the germen, lip linear entire, upper calyx-sepals and 



