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or more rarely in a geometric pattern with defined margins. Viewed 

 from the front the flowers look broad and showy. Upper petals con- 

 verging into a hood. Upper sepals usually somewhat paler, divaricate. 

 Spur shorter than ovary, curved, cylindric. Flowering usually 10-14 

 days later than incarnata. 



O. praetermissa. Foliis fere semper lineare-lanceolatis, a basi 

 lata usque ad apicem cucullatum, plerumque gradatim, interdum 

 inaequaliter contractis, et interdum in medio paulo latioribus ; 

 viridibus, flavo-viridibus, cano-viridibus vel e viridi nigricantibus ; 

 bine maculis, erectis vel ascendentibus. Bracteis saepe coloratis, 

 flori aequantibus vel superantibus. Floribus conspicuis, roseo-pur- 

 pureo, rubido vel coccineo-purpureo-nigrioante colore per varios gradus 

 pictis ; spica plus minusve lata, diffusa, cylindrica aut conica. Labia 

 lata est (8-10 mm.) et aeque longa ac lata, plana, plus minusve 

 perspicue triloba. Loba media minor est et vel paulo longior vel 

 aeque longa vel paulo brevior quam lobae laterales, marginibus non 

 reflexis, et maculis, lineis aut varis nigrioribus, aut, rarius, figura 

 geometrica, cujus margines definiti sunt, signatur. A fronte flores 

 lati et clari videntur. Petala superiora convergunt in cucullum ; 

 sepala superiora plerumque paulo pallidiora sunt et divaricata. Calcar 

 curvatum, cylindricum, brevius est quam ovarium. Diebus 10-14 

 postquam incarnata floret. 



The plant figured in the Report of the Ashmolean Wat. Hist. 

 Soc. of Oxfordshire was gathered in a marshy field on the border of 

 Hants and Berks in 1903 by Mr B. Savile Ogle, and is identical with 

 others from Tackley, Eynsham, and Upper Heyford, Oxford, 1888 ; 

 Cothill, Berks, 1892; near Lewes, Sussex; Winchester, Hants, 

 Rail & Ullma?i, 1913; White Water-side, Northants, 1878 and 1913. 

 The actual specimen figured (I.e.) was 28 inches high. Since then it 

 has broken up into 9 distinct plants, seven of which flowered and have 

 now become much shorter. In native habitats it varies from 12 to 20 

 inches. Mr Ogle has succeeded in obtaining it from seed and these 

 seedlings, one of which is now figured, are practically idencical with the 

 parent and come quite true from the earliest stage, being like each 

 other and the parent. They flower about 10-16 days (as in the native 

 habitats) later than true incarnata. 



Doubtless this is widely distributed in Britain, being indeed for 

 the most part the purple-flowered incarnata, with a broad lip. I can 

 find no figure, however, which accurately represents it. G. 0, Druce. 



