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emarginate, rarely somewhat rounded at the top, its cells nearly 

 parallel throughout their whole length ; the longitudinal central 

 line between the cells being a deep furrow in front and a keel behind. 

 Stigma rather broad, truncate, folded so as to leave a channel 

 between its pointed lobes, the middle emarginate. The difference 

 between the present and the next species has been ably illustrated by 

 Professor Babington in Linn. Trans, xvii. p. 463, and Engl. Bot. 

 Suppl. t. 2806. 



3. H. chlorantha, (Bab.) yellow Butterfly Habenaria. Great 

 Butterfly Orchis. Chlorantlia, from chloros, greenish- white, and 

 anthos, a flower. Orchis bifolia, Smith. Engl. Bot. t. 22. H. 

 montana. Reich Icones, xiii. 430. 



Locality. On pastures, grassy banks, and open places in woods. 

 P. El. May, June. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts. Very 

 similar to the last species, H. bifolia, but larger in all its parts; it 

 is known from it by its generally greater height ; much larger and 

 broader flowers, of a purer white; thicker, more compressed and 

 somewhat club-shaped spur ; and especially by the greater divergence 

 of the anthers, whose bases are so far apart that, were the apex of 

 each cell produced till they met, a nearly equilateral-triangle would 

 be described by their union. This is far the more common species 

 in the county, and the time of flowering is considerably earlier. 

 Opheys, (Linn.) Opheys. 

 Linn. CI. xx. Ord. i. 



Named from ophrus, the eyebrow; doubtless from the hairy 

 lumps at the base of the lateral lobes of the labellum in some of the 

 commoner species. 



1. O. apifera, (Huds.) Bee Orchis ; from apis, (Lat.) a bee, and 

 fero, to bear, in allusion to the convex, velvetty lip of the corolla, 

 of a deep brownish purple, variegated with yellow, not inaptly re- 

 sembling the body of a humble bee. Engl. Bot. t. 383. 



Locality. Chalk-pits and chalky pastures, occasionally also on 

 clay. P. El. June, July. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1. South-east District. « Whiteparish Hill," Rev. E. Siunus. 

 " Trenches at Old Sarum," Botanists^ Guide. 



