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plant, and one British locality only — Chippenham Fen — is cited, it 
seems likely that it is more or less widely distributed, and has 
been overlooked. There is an example in Herb. Mus. Brit, from 
Llanfairfechan [Carnarvonshire] showing fruits up to 25 mm. 
long, and another, from Hampstead, with equally large fruits, 
but leaves more obovate and narrowed below. It also grows in 
a small swamp on Wimbledon Common, where there are several 
trees about 20 ft high, which develop very large broad foliage, 
and pistillate catkins up to 32 mm. in length (dry). These trees 
show great variation in the size of the fruits, as remarked by 
Mr. A. B. Jackson in the Report of 1917. — H.W.P. 
Salix alba x pentandra. Sholden, near Deal, E. Kent, v.c. 15, 
April, 1914. — L. Day. Right, apparently. — E.F.L. 
S. aurita L. Eaker Hill Wood, Chewton Mendip, N. Somer- 
set, v.c. 6, April 23 and July 4, 1919. — Ida M. Roper. Yes. — 
E.F.L. 
Orchis incarnata L. x 1 (FI. dull flesh-coloured). Marham 
*Fen, W. Norfolk, v.c. 28, July 17, 1919. These were submitted 
to Dr. Druce, whose remarks practically left none of them as 
pure 0. incarnata. Those with dull flesh-coloured flowers have 
mostly leaves of preetermissa character. The time at which they 
were in flower is also late for 0. incarnata. There is in Marham 
Fen a vertical range of about 5 feet upwards from summer water 
level. The plants were generally growing 2 — 3 feet above this 
water level. — J. E. Little. Yes ; certainly 0. incarnata L. It is 
the Wicken Fen plant. — C.C.L. The three sheets sent (one cor- 
rected to 0. incarnata x preetermissa [by Gt. C. Druce]) seem to 
me all to represent one form, which by its narrow erect unspotted 
foliage and relatively narrow and reflexed lip is referable to a 
restricted 0. incarnata , from which the more robust form, with 
larger (but still unspotted) leaves and broader and less reflexed 
labellum, recently re-named 0. preetermissa Druce, is excluded. 
The labels do not indicate whether any other form was growing- 
in the fen with which hybrids might be produced, but I can see 
no evidence of hybridity. The flowers of these specimens 
appear in every case to be more or less pale purple in colour, and 
not of the whitish or light salmon tint characteristic of some 
forms of 0. incarnata, and often described as flesh-coloured or 
ochroleucous. The date of flowering of these plants is very late. 
I have collected what appears to be exactly this form in Wales, 
and the flesh-coloured 0. incarnata in Suffolk before the end of 
May. — H.W.P. In 1919, in Norfolk, there was a long drought 
from the end of May to the beginning of July. — J.E.L. 
