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as long ago as 1829, by Gerard Edwards Smith (Cat. Rare Pl. S. Kent, 
57). He there remarks :—“ O. arachnites and O. apifera, by a commixtt 
of pollen, produce a great variety of character. The type most constanth 
preserved is the proportion and terminal segment of arachnites. | 
yet seen a variety exhibiting the lip of the Bee with the petals, cal 
_ staminal of arachnites. . . . If among the Alps such varieties abou 
as they do upon our chalk downs, Haller’s union of the species can scare 
be regarded with surprise.” The same hybrid has been recorded from two 
Continental localities. It was described by Chodat, in 1839, under the name — 
of Ophrys X Botteroni (Bull. Soc. Bot. Genev. v. p. 187) from a specimen 3 
found in 1882, near Biel, in the canton of Berne, and is regarded as probably 
a hybrid between these two species. A figure by M. Schulze (Orch. Deutsch. 
t. 31 d.) quite confirms the idea. In r8gr it was again described under the — 
name of O. X Albertiana (G. Camus in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxviii. pp: 40, 
43), from specimens found at Champagne, Seine et Oise, France, between 4 
the years 1880 and 1889. Hanbury and Marshall record the Kentish locality — 
of this hybrid as Downs above Folkestone, where the parents grow together _ 
in good quantity (Fl. Kent, p. 333). 9 
Two other Kentish hybrid Ophryses have been recorded, the first by 
G. E. Smith (Cat. Pl. S. Kent, p. 58), who, commenting on a plant found - 
on the Downs between Newington and Lyminghe, and sent to him by Mr. — 
Lee, enquired :—‘Is it possible that a plant of O. arachnites can — 
communicate with, and receive pollen transferred by an insect from — 
O. fucifera?. I had specimens of O. arachnites and fucifera blooming — 
together. If this be the case—but let it be regarded as supposition—the 
varieties in O. fucifera may be explained.” . fucifera is now regarded as 
a form of O. aranifera, and it is noteworthy that a hybrid with thi 
parentage was described, in 1887, under the name of O. X Ascherson 
(Nanteuil in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., Xxxiv., p. 423). It was found near the 
villages of Vaux and Champagne, in June, 1887. 
The remaining Kentish hybrid is O. apifera x aranifera ? (Hand. 
Marsh. Fl. Kent, p. 334), of which it is remarked :—‘‘ Two specimens § 
to us fresh by Mr. G. L. Bruce, of the Toynbee Hall Nat. Hist. Society: 
appear to be this hybrid ; they were gathered in Magpie Bottom, neat 
Shoreham, 1898.” This hybrid has two Continental names. It was 
described in 1883 under the name of O. X epeirophora (Peter in Flo 
1883, p. 10) as a hybrid between the species in question, collected neat 
Lake Starnberger, in South Bavaria. It is probably also the Os x ; 
Muteliz (G. Camus in Journ. de Bot., 1893, p. 156), based on the O. apifera : 
var. Muteliz (Mutel in Ann. oc. Nat. ser. 2, iii, Dp. 243,.,t. 88, fig. B Bi 
all events the opinion is expressed that it is probably a hybrid betwee 
O. aranifera and O, apifera. R.A 
