BRITTEN : A FLORA OF HIGH WYCOMBE. 



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Note. — A very pretty variety was found in Dane Garden "Wood, in 1865, having 

 white blossoms, without spots or blotches, the helmet and lip being tipped with purple. 



0. maculata, L. Bab. 318. Woods, etc. : the commonest of our Orchdis. 

 KoTE.' — The stem is occasionally spotted in the same manner as the leaves. 



[ 0. latifoUa, L. Bab. 318. Wet ground in Wliittington Park, Eev. W. 

 Hunt Painter ; but perhaps a variety of 0. maculata, with unspotted 

 leaves, may have been mistaken for it. It has not been observed else- 

 where in the district.] 



0. pyramidalis, L. Bab. 319. Chalky places and woods, frequent ; Fen- 

 nell's Wood ; Dane Garden Wood ; Keep Hill, Mr. T. P. Lucas ; 

 banks by the terraces, Hughenden Woods ; Bradenham Woods, etc. 



Gymnadenia. R.Br. 



G. conopsea, E.Br. Sweet-scented Orchis. Bab. 319. Fennell's Wood ; 



Dane Garden Wood ; Hughenden Woods, very fine ; Bradenham 

 Woods, etc. 



[Aceras anthropopkora, E.Br. (Man Orchis) is said to occur in Whittington 

 Park ; but I suspect Listera ovata was the plant intended.] 



Habenaria. R.Br. 



[II. viridis. E.Br., Marlow Wood, rare. Mr. Gotobed^ Botanists 

 Guide, "2^. 39. I am unable to ascertain whicli wood is intended by this 

 somewhat vague appellation; but have never seen H. viridis any- 

 where in the district.] 



H. hifolia, E.Br. " Heathy places." Bab. 320. llTapliill Common ; rare 



in the district. [" Bisham Wood, especially the continuation of it on 



the right of the Maidenhead road." Phyt. i. 993. O.S. The next 



species was doubtless intended.] 

 11. chlorantha, Bab. " Moist woods and thickets," Bab. 320. Frequent : 



Fennell's Wood ; Dane Garden Wood ; Hughenden Woods, etc. 

 Note. — The latter is, with us, much the commoner species of the two. The habi- 

 tats assigned to each, as quoted above, are admirably characteristic. 



Ophrys. lAnn. 



0. ap)ifera, Huds. Bee Orchis. Bab. 320. Fennell's Wood ; bank near 

 White Hill ; Bradenham Woods ; gathered in these three localities in 

 1866. A single specimen found on Keep Hill, in 1863, and another in 

 Wycombe Park, in 1864, by Mr. T. P. Lucas. Formerly "most 

 abundant in a field at the back of the three houses on the bank near 

 Miss Harrison's Mill, [between Wycombe Marsh and Loud water,] close 

 to a little wood of firs." MS. [Dane Garden and Hughenden Woods.] 



0. muscifera, Huds. Fly Orchis. Bab. 321. Woods, not unfrequent .• 



