Locai.itiks. — In spongy bogs in many places, but apt to be overlooked on 
account of its small size. — Bedfordsh. Potton Marshes: Rev. C. Abbot. — 
Cambridgesh. Gamlingay Bogs: Rev. R. Rei.iian. On Hinton Moor: B.G. — 
Durham; In bogs on Eglestone Moor: Teesdale. Unmoors south of Wol- 
singham: Mr. Backhouse. — Hants; Bere Forest, near Wickham: Dr. Pul- 
teney. Walton Heath, East Leigh, near Emsworth : .Mr. Barton. — Herts; 
On the low wet grounds between Hatfield and St. Albans: Parkinson.— Kent ; 
Divers places in Romney Marsh: Parkinson. At Huist Hill, Tunbridge 
Wells: Mr. Dubois. — Lancash. Between Rusland Chepel and Thwaite Moss, 
in Furness Fells: Mr. Jackson. — Norfolk ; Felthorpe Bog near Norwich: Rev. 
H. Bryant. On Cawston Heath: Mr. Crowe. Belton Common; Ashby 
Warren, abundantly : Hist. Yarm. — Northumberland ; On the Muckle Moss 
near Thorngrafton : N. J. Winch, Esq. in N. B. U. — Staffbrdsh. Norton Bog ; 
and Cannock Wood: Mr. Bagot .—Sussex ; Near the Tilgale Ponds; Chil- 
tington Moors; and Hurst Hill, near Tunbridge Wells: Bot Sus. N. B.G. — 
Yorksh. W'est of Middleton: Mr. Robson. — WALES. Caernarvonsh. In a 
field where a wood has formerly stood, called Coed y Tu Du. near Llanberris: 
Mr. Griffith. — SCOTLAND. Fifesh. Marshes near St. Andrew’s : Light* 
foot, FI. Scot.— Forfar sh. In the low parts of the county ; and on the summits 
of the Clova Mountains: Mr. Don, in Agr. of Angus. Glen Clova: W. 
Brands, in N. B G. A mile or two above the kirk of Clova, on the opposite 
side of the river: Mr. Watson, in N. B. G.— Kinross-shire ; Rills near the 
foot of Dunglow: Mr. D. Stewart. — Perthsh A little to the East of Ben Vor- 
lich, and a little above the house of Ardvotlich: Mr. Arnott. — Ross-shire ; 
South side of a stream above Castle Leod; and near Freevater: N.B. G. — 
Sutherland ; Behind Oikel Inn ; road-side above Inversion ; and at Ben Loyal : 
N. B. G. — Wigtonsh. Mull of Galloway: N. J. Winch, Esq. — IRELAND. 
In a marshy spot above Powerscourt Waterfall, and at Tittour, county of Wick- 
low, as well as in the southern and northern counties, but never in great quan- 
tities: Mr. Mackay. 
Perennial. — Flowers from July to September. 
Root bulbous, curved, often stalked, and throwing out radicles 
from the base. Scape ( stalk J central, from 2 to 5 inches high, 
upright, angular, smooth, mostly naked. Leaves 3 or 4, egg- 
shaped, or inversely egg-shaped, various in length, very concave, 
rather glaucous, almost upright, blunt ; their apex rough with little 
bulbous gemmae. Flowers in a slender upright spike, or raceme ; 
very small, pale green, reversed, the upper sepal (fig. 1, c.) being 
turned downward, the two others (fig. 1, c, c.), with the small entire 
lip (fig. 1, e.), upward ; petals (fig. 1, cl, d.) turned back (see fig. 2). 
Capsules nearly globular. Bracteas (see fig. 1, a.) spear-shaped, 
small, membranous, about as long as the pedicels. 
This very curious and interesting little plant is indigenous to 
Russia, Sweden, and Germany, as well as Britain ; and is the small- 
est of all our native Orchideae. It has been clearly ascertained, by 
the Rev. Professor Henslow, of Cambridge, that the minute pa- 
pillae at the apex of the leaves, are little hulbous gemma, and as 
such he has described and figured them in Loudon’s Magazine 
of Natural History, v. i. pp. 441 & 442. This fact appears to have 
been suspected previously, in 1824, by Mr. W. Wilson, who 
further finds an hybernaculum formed in the Autumn among the 
decayed leaves. Thus independant of seeds, this curious little 
plant has one mode of perpetuating itself, and another of increase. 
See Hooker’s Brit. FI. 
The Drawing for the accompanying Plate was made from the largest out of 
several specimens which were kindly communicated to me by Mr. Barton, of 
East Leigh, near Emsworth, Hants, July 19, 1840. 
