Localities. —Marshy woods in Scotland, rare. — Ayrshire; Sandy places 
near the. sea close by Ayr: Mr. Goldie.— Edinburghsh. Kir -wood at the end 
of Ravelrig Marsh, very abundant: Mr. J. Macnab, in N. B.G. And among 
the willows: Mr. II. C. Watson, in N.B.G. In a peal-bog among willows, 
a little to the south of Dalmahoy Hill, nine miles from Kdinburgh : Mr. K. J. 
Maughan. — Fifeshire ; Near Dunfermline: Mr. W. Brand, in N.B.G. — 
Forfarshire ; Sands of Berrie : Mr. T. Drummond. — Perthshire; formerly 
found in the woods of IMethven Castle: N.B.G. — Ross-shire ; In a moist 
hanging wood, on the south side near the head of Little Loch Broom : I .igiitfoot. 
Perennial. — Flowers from June to September. 
Root of many thick, fleshy, pale-brown or yellowish, short, blunt 
fibres, which are branched like coral, the branches distinct, not 
touching each other. Leaves none. Scape solitary, upright, from 
6 inches to a foot high, round, striated, smooth, of a pale brownish- 
yellow colour, furnished with about three distant, tubular, loosely 
sheathing scales of the same hue. Flowers few, in a loose terminal 
spike or cluster, drooping at first, of a pale yellowish colour. 
Bracteas small, egg-spear-shaped, greenish. Peduncles very short, 
curved, finally upright. Germen (fig. 1. b.) smooth, incurved, 
bluntly angular. Sepals (fig. l.c, c, c.) spear-shaped, spreading, 
greenish with a tinge of red. Petals (fig. 1 . d, d.) spear-shaped, 
pale yellow, often reddish at the points, converging under the upper 
sepal. Lip (see figs. 1 & 4.) curved downwards, inversely egg- 
shaped, or oblong, with a slight contraction in the middle, below 
which, towards the base, are two shallow rounded lobes, the whole 
white or pale yellow, more or less spotted with red. Spur not 
apparent, or so short as to be altogether adnate with the lip. Column 
(fig. 1, e. and figs. 2 & 3.) elongated, strap-shaped, convex at the 
back ; channelled in front ; of a yellowish colour ; crowned with 
the vertical anther (fig. 6.) in the form of a lid, and attached behind 
as by a hinge. Pollen-masses (fig. 5.) 2 in each cell, egg-shaped, 
pale green, placed obliquely, of a waxy consistency. Stigma almost 
square, covered by the anther. Capsule elliptical, with 3 blunt 
ribs, and crowned with the permanent withered flower. See Sm. 
Engl. FI. and Hook. FI. Lond. 
This is one of the most rare, as well as one of the most singular 
of the British Orchideous plants. It is said to be a native of Swit- 
zerland, Carniola, and the south of France ; but it has been found 
nowhere in these islands except in Scotland. 
The first time I.inn/eus met with this rare and curious plant in a living state, 
was on the 19th of June, 1732, old style, in the island of Longoen, thiee miles 
from Old Pithoea, in Lapland ; it was growing under a Spruce Fir, and was at 
that time in full bloom. It appears, fiom the Flora Lapponica, not to be very 
unfrequent in that country. 
The plant seems to admit of some curious varieties ; Mr. Woodward describes 
a specimen, in his possession, in which the lower sheath terminates in a real 
spear-shaped leaf, upright, somewhat approaching, half an inch long, two lines 
broad ; and above this two others which are shoiter. And we are infotmed by 
Dr. Greville, in his Flora Edinensis, p. 187, that he possesses a highly curi- 
ous monstrosity of this plant from Havelrig-toll, near Edinburgh, in which all the 
flowers on one individual, have the 2 outer of the 3 upper conuivent segments of 
the perianth converted into lips, as large as the true bp, deflexed, and beautifully 
spotted ; the 3 remaining segments appearing between them like a 3-leaved calyx, 
and the column of fructification standing in the centre wholly unprotected, and 
terminated by the anther. 
