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kept constantly in the bark-stove, which is right ; but I have 

 always found it thrive better on the flues, than when the pot 

 is plunged in the bark-bed ; and it grows wild on the very 

 highest mountains of Jamaica, where it flowers in November. 

 It was introduced by Sir Brook Booth by, in 1790. 



Ibidium Crystalligerum. MSS. Neottia orchioides. 

 Sims in Bot. Mag. n. 1036. cum Ic. — Swartz. Fl. Ind. Occ. v. 3. 

 p. 1411. 



One of the most beautiful plants of this genus, introduced 

 by E. I. A. Woodford, Esq. in 1806', from the Island of Bar- 

 badoes, where it grows wild in the most arid places among 

 grass. It requires, nevertheless, moderate, waterings here, 

 while the leaves are green. As the original Neottia of Dodo- 

 nje us is a legitimate genus, parasitic on the roots of trees, 

 I have adopted a name for these plants, suggested by the 

 late Mr. Dryander, from the resemblance of their anther 

 to the head of an Ibis. 



Ophrys Ovata. Smith in Engl. Bot. n. 1548. cum Ic, 

 Epipactis ovata. Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 232. 



This species is very common in a limestone soil, but will 

 grow almost any where ; and was so luxuriant in bog earth, 

 under a large Rhododendrum Ponticum of the Right Hon. 

 Charles Greville's, that several spikes, from one cluster 

 of roots, measured between two and three feet in height. 



Malaxis Liliifolia. Swartz. in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 236. 

 Ophrys liliifolia. Kcnn. in Bot. Rep. n. 65. cum Tc.—Linn. Sp. 

 PL ed. 2. p. 1341. 



Among other treasures which I found at Mill Hill ten years 

 ago, when I purchased Mr. Peter Collinson's villa there, 

 were several of these plants growing near the edge of the pond 



