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nobleman, so long ago as 1760. It grows wild in the woods 

 of Hindostan, flowering there, as well as here, in April and 

 May, just before the leaves appear. In our stoves it suc- 

 ceeds better on a shelf than in a bark-bed ; the moist 

 warmth of the latter exciting the roots into action, too soon, 

 in spring. 



ORCHIDE^. 

 Sect. 1. 



Diplectrum Cucullifolium. MSS. Satyrium cuculla- 

 tum. Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 206 Orchis bicornis. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. ed. 2. p. 1330. 



Two bulbs of this species flowered at Kew, in 1787, with 

 one of which, and many other rare plants, the late Mr. Aiton 

 enriched my collection. I preserved it some years, by at- 

 tending to his directions of planting the bulb in a pot, nearly 

 full of broken tiles mixed with pure sandy loam, and keep- 

 ing it quite dry when not vegetating. 



Pterygodium Volucre. Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800 

 p. 218. Ophrys volucris. Linn. Snppl.p. 403. 



Por this curious plant I was indebted to Sir Joseph 

 Banks, who received it in a bag of seeds and bulbs collected 

 at the Cape in 1796, the whole of which he gave to me. The 

 imported bulb flowered once at Chapel- Allerton, and also 

 increased, its longer fibres terminating in a small bulb ; a 

 mode of propagation which I shall have occasion to notice 

 in many plants that have no affinity to each other. These 

 small bulbs, however, made little or no progress afterwards, 

 and never flowered, though they went on multiplying exceed- 

 ingly It is not a tender species ; for, at last, tired of potting 



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