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The Flora of Wiltshire. 



'2. South-middle District. " Chalk-pits near the Race-course, 

 Salisbury " Mr. H. Hatcher. Barrows about Stonehenge. Rams 

 II ill, near Lavington. Westbury Downs and Scratchbury Camp. 



3. South-west District. Norton Bavant, Clay-hill and Warminster 

 Downs. " Odstock/' Maton's Nat. Hist. Wilts. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Middle Hill, near Box, Rudloe, Corsham. 

 " Chippenham," Dr. R. C. Prior. Below the rocks on Monkton 

 Farley Down. Winsley, Bradford. Sandridge, near Melksham. 



5. North-east District. Roundway Hill, near Devizes. Broad 

 Hinton. " Marlborough/'' Rev. T. Preston. Tubers roundish. 

 Stem 6 to 9 inches high, leafy. Flowers large. Calyx purplish. 

 Petals small, oblong, greenish-white. Lip convex, velvetty, of a 

 deep-brownish purple variegated with yellow, not unaptly resembling 

 the body of the Humming Bee. 



2. O. muscifera, (Huds.) fly Ophrys, from musca, a fly, and fero, 

 to bear, in allusion to the form of the flower. Engl, Bot. t. 64. 

 Reich Icones, xiii. 447, St. 40, 15. 



Locality. In rather moist and shady places, on chalk. P. Fl. 

 May, June. Area, 1. 2. * 4. 5. 



South Division. 



1, South-east District. "Whiteparish Hill/' Rev. E. Simms. 



2. South-middle District. Chalk-pits near the Race-course, 

 Salisbury in company with O. apifera, Mr. H. Hatcher. " Westbury 

 Downs/ - ' Miss Over bury. 



North Division. 



4. North-west District. Woods at Box. Hazelbury. Kingsdown. 

 Rudloe, and Weevern Mill. " Chippenham/'' Dr. R. C. Prior. 



5. North-east District. Plantations on Roundway Hill. It is 

 impossible to confound this with any of the preceding, from which it 

 is well distinguished by its very slender, lateral petals, which re- 

 semble the antense of an insect, and by its narrow lip, two-lobed at 

 the extremity, and having a broad pale bluish spot in the centre. 

 This species has not as yet been observed in District 3. 



[3. O. aranifera, (Huds.) early Spider Orchis. Engl. Bot. t. 



