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mentioned it to Dr. H. Lewis (who was a member of the Botanical 
Record Club about 1874), but be scouted the idea of its being 
Liparis. On the 22nd of June, 1899, I walked out to the valley, 
where to my delight I found 15 to 20 plants of it scattered 
about. A few years after, Mr. Browne told me that the little 
valley had entirely changed its appearance, the shifting sand 
having covered ali the vegetation.” On the 9th of Jr io the 
same year Mr. H. H. Knight again discovered the Liparis, and 
sent me specimens, which agreed with Mr. Kiddelsdell’s ironi 
Glamorgan (Sept. 7, 1905). In Carmarthenshire the plant » ■? 
associated with Car ex glauea , C. GooJenowii , C. arenaria, Salix 
repens, Mentha hirsuta , etc. Mr. Riddelsdell sent rue a list of 42 
species with which it grew in Glamorganshire. We now have 
records of its being gathered in some 29 stations in 6 — 8 vice- 
counties. In Britain it seems to occur in abundance in cycles of 
about twenty years, gradually dying out until a recurrence. At 
p 622 (1904) of the “ Norf. & Norw. Trans.” I made the following 
remark : “ It is what would be called a short-lived perennial ; 
probably the year it occurs abundantly it seeds freely, the plants 
die, and the seed floats about until the water begins to run off 
the land in May, then the seed settles down and grows. It. is 
well known that q,t times Orchis seeds take many years to ger- 
minate and come to the flowering stage. The water level is high, 
perhaps for some years, then there comes a dry season (like 
1883 — 4), and the plant is exposed to view.” Even in 1884 the' 
ground was so wet that one dared no'u stop long in one place 
without fen-boards. There is an excellent description of its 
growth by Crepin in “Notes plantes rare ou critiques de Bel- 
gique,” Ease. 3, 102 (1868). He there describes how it has a 
progressive lateral growth, >nd one specimen I have shows this 
for four years, the old stems for 1881-2-3 and 4 still remaining. 
This, no doubt, is its usual growth, but at times it developes by 
a vertical growth, as is shown by a specimen sent me by Mr. 
Fryer, who remarks that this state occurs on Chippenham Fen. 
It is three inches in height ( i.e . the root growth). Whether thi. 
is to get above the dense vegetation I am unable to say. Wh( ;i 
grown from seed the plant is only f-inch high at the end of the 
first year, the second year it is 1£ inches — how many years it is 
before it flowers I am unable to say. With regard to "the name, 
Linneus, in the 1st ed. of the “Sp. Plant.” H. p. 946, has Ophrys 
lilifolia (7), in 947, (8), 0. Loeselii, yet no one seems to have 
noticed this. In ed. 2, p. 1341, he has 0. Loeselii.-— AM. 8ee 
Mr. Britten’s paper on “ Liparis liliifolia and L. Loeselii ” in 
" JL Bot.” (1917), p. '246.— H.S.T, 
