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On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



them, I planted some bulbs, which I brought with me to 

 Mill Hill, in the open border, under the green-house, where 

 thej lived three years before they finally dwindled away. 

 If we knew the soil and situation in which the plant grows 

 wild, probably it might be cultivated with more success. 



Disperis Secunda. Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 300. 

 Arethusa secunda. Thunb. Prodr. p. 3. Ophrys circumflexa. 

 Linn. Sp.Pl. ed. I.p. 1344. 



Introduced with the preceding in 1797, by Sir Joseph 

 Banks. It only lived one year, though kept dry after the 

 stern and leaves decayed. 



Disa Spatulata. Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800.^?. 213. Saty- 

 rium spatulatum. Thunb. Prodr. p. 5. Orchis spatulata. Linn. 

 Suppl. p. 398. 



Introduced by George Hibbert, Esq. in 1805. This 

 plant is not a difficult one to manage, for it flowered two years 

 successively at Clapham ; and I have since seen it in Messrs 

 Lee and Kennedy's nursery. The flowers are of a dirty 

 olive colour ; leaves numerous, narrow, and very unlike most 

 of this Natural Order. 



Disa Cornuta. Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 210. Saty- 

 rium cornutum. Thimb. Prodr. p. 5. Orchis cornuta. Linn.Sp. 

 PI. ed. 2. p. 1330. 



This also flowered at Clapham, in Mr. Hibbert's collection, 

 in 1805, and would have been figured by Mr. Andrews, m 

 the Botanist's Repository, but it was thought not to be suffi- 

 ciently advanced when he saw it; its petals, however, I 

 believe never do expand much, for the plant was very healthy, 

 and afterwards swelled its capsules. 

 Lysias Bieolia. MSS. Habenaria bifolia. Brown Prodr. 



