73. ORCHIDACER. 577 
well for Dr. Boswell Syme to let his readers know the sense in 
which he wished them to understand his own use of the term 
‘naturalised’ in his edition of English Botany. (See page 60 of 
this volume, lower half.) I have much regretted to see so many 
plants formally described and figured in that edition, which at best 
required only passing mention in the category of “excluded 
species,” if even there.— [June, 1870. Opportunely, “The 
Student’s Flora of the British Islands,” quite a model Flora-in 
its completeness and condensation, has been published since the 
preceding remark was penned. In it I find no mention at all of 
the “naturalised” Pinaster. But Dr. Hooker has judiciously 
sought to expunge improprieties from our descriptive books, not to 
increase their numbers needlessly. If the Pinaster, why not also 
the Laburnum, Pseud-acacia, Hippocastanum, and many others 
spring freely from self-sown seeds, and are more familiar to 
us? 
73. ORCHIDACEE. 
Epipactis (media) purpurata, Sm. 
Province - 5. Worcestershire; Rev. Dr. Abbott, in 1805. 
Syn. 1089*, Cyb. ii. 417. A monstrosity, only once found. The 
Ep. purpurata of Smith was founded upon a single plant, with 
unexpanded flowers, apparently an epiphyte (‘ parasitical ”) mon- 
strosity. What the variety may be, to which the name has been 
transferred in Babington’s Manual, I do not know. Many dried 
examples from “ Reigate” have passed through my hands, none of 
them the same with Smith’s specimen plant. Dr. Boswell Syme 
is under some error in recording that the Claygate plants of Ep. 
media “are not at all tinged with purple.” On a label with a 
specimen dried in 1849, I wrote “whole plant with a lilac-purple 
bloom over the green’; and, indeed, it was the purple tint which 
first drew my attention to the plant of the Telegraph Wood, Clay- 
gate, as something different from ordinary Ep. latifolia. 
Orchis (latifolia) maialis, Reich. O. latifolia, E. B. 3. 
Provinces all? <‘‘ Rather common, and generally distributed.” 
Syn. 1052. Cyb. it. 427. Dr. Boswell Syme uses the name 
palmata to include the latifolia and incarnata of English botanists. 
Until recently the former name intended either or both, by its use 
in England; and if by change of meaning it is henceforward to be 
limited to the more frequent segregate, left after separation of the 
O. incarnata therefrom, some joint name for the two may be held. 
desirable. I keep to latifolia here because it is the aggregate 
name used for both together in the Cybele and in English books 
generally. O. maialis, Reich. is quoted in English Botany as a 
synonym for our usual segregate, and is taken up distinctively on 
faith here. 
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