Cambridysh. Chalk-pit Close; Pits between Hinton, and the road to Gog- 
magog Hills; Westhoe; in an old gravel-pit near Mr. Keene’s house: Rev. R. 
Relhan. — Essex; Near Newport: Miss Howard. — Gloucestersh. On Rod- 
borough Hill, near Stroud, July 12, 1832 ; and on Painswick Hill, near Stroud, 
just below the Roman Camp; July 16, 1838: Rev. G. W. Sandys. In Prink- 
nash Rough Park, near Painswick ; and Linover Scar, near Cheltenham ; 1837 : 
E. F. Witts, Esq. — Hants ; On Bordean Hill : Dr. Pulteney. In Marsedell 
chalk-pit, near Basingstoke; July, 1838: Rev. E. Hill, Ch. Ch. Oxford. — 
Kent ; On the chalky banks of Ospringe Parsonage Meadows, near Faversham: 
E. Jacob, Esq. 1777. Upon chalk-downs at Stowting ; and on turf, between 
Lyminge and Elham : Rev. G. E. Smith. NearCuxton: Rev. W. W. Peete. 
Plentiful in Kent: Mr. W.Pamplin, jun. — Middlesex ; Near Enfield : Martyn. 
— Norfolk; Chalk-pit at Marham : Mr. Woodward. Near Snettisham : Mr. 
Crowe.— Somersetsli. Pastures near Cottage Crescent: Dr. Davis. — Suffolk ; 
In a chalk-pit near Sicklesmere, and at Little Saxham : Sir T. G. Cullum. 
Bury: N. J. Winch, Esq. — Surrey ; In the great chalk-pit on Epsom Downs, 
near Ashted Park : Mr. T. F. Forster, jun. Near Miekleham ; and in Nor- 
bury Park, near Dorking : Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. Box Hill: Mr. J. Macnab, 
in N. B. G. — Sussex; On the Side Hill of Vinegar Bottom near Lewes : Mr. 
W ool6a r. Parham; Hanger; foot of Chanctonbury ; near the turnpike on 
the road from Lewes to Ditcheling : Bot. of Sussex. 
Perennial. — Flowers in June and July. 
Root of several thick, somewhat woolly, fibres, and one globular 
hairy knob. Stem from 4 to 6 inches high, upright, nearly cylin- 
drical, striated, smooth, sometimes slightly twisted. Leaves 2, 
rarely 3, alternate, elliptic-spear-shaped, acute, obscurely ribbed, 
concave, sheathing the stem at, or near, its base ; when a third 
leaf is present, (as was the case in the plant figured,) it is usually 
elevated towards the middle of the stem ; and there is mostly a 
small, membranous, spear-shaped, taper-pointed bractea higher up, 
similar to those under each flower. Spike from an inch and a half 
to two inches long. Flowers small, numerous, rather crowded, 
greenish-yellow, smelling like musk and honey, especially in an 
evening. (The Rev. Mr. Sandys remarks, that their delicious 
fragrance is chiefly to be perceived in the heat of the sun.) Calyx 
of 3 equal, egg-shaped, blunt, concave, green sepals, shorter than 
the corolla. Petals of a totally different substance from the sepals, 
thick, yellowish, spreading between the sepals ; egg-shaped at the 
base, with a more or less prominent angle, or lobe, at each side, 
and suddenly tapering into an elongated point. Lip of the same 
substance and colour as the petals, but usually more deeply lobed 
at each side, spreading equally with them, and about the same 
length, pale and somewhat tumid at its base. Germen oval, sessile, 
tapering above into a sort of fruit-stalk, whence the flower hangs 
obliquely drooping. Column short, and thick. Anthers in front, 
roundish, pale brown. Pollen masses brown, on a short footstalk, 
with a large white gland. 
Most tuberous-rooted Orchises present the two tubers (of the present and suc- 
ceeding year) of nearly equal dimensions ; but here, while the tuber which affords 
nourishment to the existing stem is sessile, large, and shrivelled, the other is seen 
forming a little swelling at the extremity of an horizontal fibre. The future years 
plant will thus arise at some considerable distance from its parent. See Hooker’s 
FI. Lond. 
The drawing for the accompanying Plate was made from a plant kindly commu- 
nicated to me by my much-esteemed friend Mr. W. Pamplin, jun. of Lavender 
Hill Nursery, Wandsworth, near London, June 28, 1838. I am also indebted to 
the Rev. E. Hill, M. A. of Ch. Ch. Oxford; and to the Rev. G. W. Sandys, of 
Stroud, Gloucestershire, for fine plants of this interesting little Orcli:?. 
