342 THE BOTANICAL EXCHANGE CLUB OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



2340. Habenaria viridis x Orchis latifolia, P. M. Hall 

 in Winchester College Natural History Society Report 1912-13, pp. 6-8. 

 Near Winchester, Hampshire, 1912, 1913. Assuming 0. latifolia to 

 be the second parent, the hybrid differs in being " shorter, flower spike 

 less compact, flowers strongly tinged with green or dull coppery red 

 (colours never seen in the Marsh Orchid), flowers tilted downwards, 

 sometimes almost horizontal (this point is very characteristic of the 

 Frog), spur very short." Mr Hall gives a minute description of the 

 two forms found. At first the hybrid was thought to be probably 0. 

 maculata and H. viridis. A specimen was sent me for examination 

 and I suggested that it might be the Marsh and not the Spotted 

 Orchid which was the second parent. In 1913 fresh plants were 

 found associated with a form of incarnata. Mr Hall now suggests, 

 and having seen his additional specimens I think it extremely likely 

 that the plant in question is really 

 0. maculata ) 



2386 b. Polygonatum odoratum Druce (P. officinale All.) var. 

 intermedium (Boreau Flore Centre Fr. ed. 3, ii., 615). Colerne, 

 Wilts (See Syme E.B. ix., 179). It is most desirable to collect this 

 plant again as it is possibly a hybrid of the two species. It may be 

 here stated that the specimen of Miller's Convallaria odorata in the 

 Herbarium at the British Museum is not P. multiflorum as stated 

 in Journ. Bot. 442, 1907, but the plant AH ioni called P. officinale; 

 Miller's trivial name dates from 1768, Allioni's from 1785. 



2394 (2). Allium sativum L. 1 var. Ophioscorodon (Link) 

 Doell. Near Port Logan, Wigton, in turf, but not far from houses. 

 To this must probably be referred the A. Ampeloprasum var. cornigerum 

 See Report 34, 1911. Cultivation leads me to believe that this curious 

 Allium is a sativum form which Dr Thellung thinks is probably to be 

 identified as above. Doubtless it is of alien origin. G. C. Druce. 



2413 b. Ornithogalum umbellatum L., var. angustifolium 

 (Boreau Fl. Centre Fr. ed. 3, ii., 625) Syme E.B. ix., 196. Isle of 

 Wight. See Bromfield Fl. Vectensis, 501. Leaves narrowly linear, 

 erect when young ; flowers 3-5. In the type the leaves are broadly 

 linear, recurved when young, flowers 5-12, 



x 



0. incarnata 



