Localities. — On sandy bogs, among rushes; very rare. — Cambridgeshire ; 
Teversham; Fulbourn; and Sawston Moors: Rev. R. Reliian. Hinlon Moor : 
Dr. Withering. Burwell Fen: C. C. Rabington, Esq. in N. B. G. — Kent ; 
Boggy ground about Ham Ponds, near Eastry : L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. — 
Norfolk ; St. Faith’s Newton Bogs, near Norwich: Mr. Pitciifoud. Roydon 
Fen, near Diss: Mr. Woodward.— Suffolk ; Bogs near Tuddenham : Sir 
T. G, Cullum. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July. 
Root somewhat bulbous, bulb solid, greenish, covered with soft 
pale scales, increasing by one or more lateral offsets from the base, 
and sending down, from the same part, many simple, wavy radi- 
cles. Leaves 2, of equal size, spear-shaped, strap-spear-shaped, or 
sometimes inversely egg-shaped, quite entire, smooth, bright green, 
with one central rib and many small ones ; their bases elongated 
and sheathing. Scape f stalk J from between the leaves, from 3 to 
8 inches high, triangular, smooth, naked. Flowers from 3 or 4 
to 8, seldom more, in a kind of raceme, each with a small spear- 
shaped bractea at its base (see fig. 1. g ). Sepals (see fig. 1. a, a, a.) 
spreading, spear-shaped, bluntish, of a pale lemon-colour. Petals 
(fig. 1. b, b.) strap-shaped, rather longer and narrower than the 
sepals, likewise spreading, and of nearly the same hue. Lip 
( nectary J (fig. 1. c.) of a deeper yellow, rather longer than the 
petals, inversely egg-shaped, folded, or channelled, wavy, or slightly 
crenate. Germen (fig. 1 . f .) inversely egg-shaped. Capsule (fig. 6.) 
upright, elliptic-oblong, angular, many-seeded. Seeds numerous, 
very small. 
As well as of England, this curious plant is also a native of 
Denmark, Sweden, and Prussia. It is one of the very rarest of our 
native Orchidece, having never been found either in Wales, Scot- 
land, or Ireland; and even in England, according to Withering, 
the Norfolk and Suffolk stations given for it, are very doubtful. 
The drawing for the accompanying plate was made from a specimen preserved in 
the Sherardian Herbarium, hut whether of British or Foreign growth, is not 
specified. Sir W. J. Hooker observes, that the flowers of this species are, in their 
general structure, very similar to those of the tropical and parasitical Liparis 
foliosa, figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 2709. 
THE WILD FLOWER. 
“ Sweet wilding tufts that ’mid the waste 
Your lovely buds expand ; 
Though by no sheltering walls embraced. 
Nor trained by beauty’s hand ; 
The primal flowers which grace your stems 
Bright as the dahlia’s shine. 
Found thus, like unexpected gems. 
To lonely hearts like mine. 
’Tis a quaint thought, and yet perchance. 
Sweet blossoms ye are sprung 
From flowers that over Eden oriec 
Their pristine fragrance flung ; 
That drank the dews of Paradise, 
Beneath the starlight clear ; 
Or caught front Eve’s dejected eyes 
Her first repentant tear.” 
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 
