Localities. — In mountainous pastures; not common. — Cheshire ; In Cocker's 
Fields, Stayley Wood: B. G. — Cumberland ; Keswick. Mountainous pastures 
above Borrowdale: B. G. Hill-sides above Watendlath Tarn, and between 
Watendlath and Borrow ; N. B. G. — Durham ; Near Winch Bridge, and be- 
tween Whey Syke and Widdy Bank, also on the banks of Nucton Bourn : N. J. 
Winch, Esq. — NorthamjHonsh. In a boggy place two miles from Stanford, in 
the way to Stilton : Merrett (before 1666); suggested to be Peristylus viridis.— 
Northumberland ; In pastures at Shew ing Shields near the Roman Wall ; also 
near Roadley Lake; Fallowlees Bourn, and Baybridge above Blanchland; at 
the north end of Crag Close near Barwesford; and in a field between Cambro 
and the Close Houses: FI. of N. $ D. — Westmoreland ; Barrowfield Wood: 
N. B. G. — Worcestersh. Cradley Park, and Wickbury Hill, near Hagley : Mr. 
Scott, in Illust. — Yorksk. Mountains N. of Helmsley, rare. Moist meadows 
about Malham; Giggleswick Tarn near Settle; heathy moors above Hawnby 
near Thirsk ; and at Hallow Gill: B. G. Thoraldby, Wensleydale. and Ingle- 
ton: N. B. G. — WALES. Cardigansh. On the exposed grassy bills, which 
surround Hafod: B.G. — Caernarvonsh. Road-side from Bangor to LlynOgwen; 
in moist meadows near Lord Penrhvn’s slate quarries in Nant Francon; 
plentifully in Glyn Meadow between Cwn y Clo and Dolbadarn Castle; and 
near Llyn Cowlid in the meadows N. W. of Capel Cerig; rocky pastures near 
Bluen y Nant near Llyn Ogwen ; and on the back of Snowdon on the way from 
Llanberris to Caernarvon: B. G.— SCOTLAND. More or less frequent in the 
counties of Aberdeen, Argyle, Ayr, Banff, Dumbarton, Elgin, Fife, Forfar, 
Inverness, Lanark, Orkney, Perth, Renfrew, Ross, and Stirling. — IRE- 
LA NL. Mountain pastures, not unlrequent. Luggelaw and other places in the 
county of Wicklow. Abundant in Antrim and Derry : FI. Hibernica. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root of about 3 pair of tapering, somewhat flexuose, cylindrical, 
undivided, brownish knobs, with 3 or 4 slender, thread-shaped ra- 
dicles, from above their common origin. Stem from 5 inches to 
about a foot high, upright, leafy, slightly striated, hollow. Leaves 
light green, rather glaucous beneath ; upper ones spear-shaped ; 
lower ones broader, sheathing at the base, and rounded at the sum- 
mit. Flowers numerous, small, slightly fragrant; in a cylindrical, 
close, narrow spike. Bracleas (fig. 1 . a.) egg-spear-shaped, blunt- 
ish, about as long as the germen. Sepals (fig. 2 . a, a, a.) and petals 
(fig. 1. b, b.) egg-shaped, concave, moderately converging, cream- 
coloured, very similar both in form, size, and hue. Lip (fig. l.c.) 
a little longer, and greener, somewhat deflexed ; 3-lobed, the middle 
lobe the largest, and sometimes bluntish. Spur (fig. 1. c. & fig. 2. d.) 
incurved, short and thick. Anthers (see fig. 2.) yellowish. Pollen - 
masses (see fig. 2. e., and fig. 3.) yellow. 
A curious little plant, native of many other parts of Europe as well as of Britain. 
The Natural Order Oncm'oE.T is composed of monocotyledonous, herba- 
ceous plants, frequently, in the terrestrial species, with tuberous roots. Their 
leaves are simple, quite entire, and often articulated with the stem. Their 
flowers are produced in terminal or radical spikes, racemes, or panicles; some- 
times solitary. The perianthium is superior, ringent, in 6 segments in 2 rows, 
mostly coloured ; one, the lowest one (so situated from the twisting of the ovary) 
different in form from the rest, and often spurred. The stamens are 3, united in 
a central column, the two lateral ones usually abortive, the central one perfect ; 
or the central one abortive, and the two lateral ones perfect. The anther is 2- or 
4- or 8-celled, and often deciduous. The pollen is powdery or frequently coher- 
ing in waxy masses. The ovary is 1-celled, with 3 paiietal receptacles. The 
style forms part of the column with the stamens. 'The stigma is a viscid space 
in front of the column. The capsule is 3-valved, rarely baccate ; and the seeds 
are numerous, with a loose, reticulated testa ; and no albumen. 
